teat

See also: Teat and teát

English

Etymology

From Middle English tete, from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *tittā, *tittō, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), ultimately of expressive origin. Compare Old High German zizza ("teat"; modern German Zitze), whence also Italian zizza (“teat”).

It heavily displaced Old English titt, a cognate of the same origin, which survives as tit, but in more vulgar use. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːt/

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

teat (plural teats)

1. (anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 107:

     Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers.

   Synonyms: tit (now vulgar), pap, nipple, dug

2. Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
3. An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

Quotations

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:3:

  And they committed whordomes in Egypt, they committed whordomes in their youth: there were their brests pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginitie.

Translations

projection of mammary gland

• Arabic: حَلَمَة‎ f (ḥalama), خِلْف‎ m (ḵilf)
• Aromanian: tsãtsã f
• Bulgarian: цицка f (cicka), зърно на гърдата (zǎrno na gǎrdata)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奶頭／奶头 (zh) (nǎitóu), 乳頭／乳头 (zh) (rǔtóu)

• Czech: struk (cs) m, bradavka (cs) f
• Danish: pat c, brystvorte c
• Dutch: speen (nl) m or f, tepel (nl) m
• Esperanto: cico, mampinto (eo)
• Finnish: nänni (fi)
• French: trayon (fr) m
• German: Brustwarze (de) f
• Greek: θηλή (el) f (thilí)

  Ancient: θηλή f (thēlḗ)

• Hittite: 𒋼𒂊𒋫𒀭 (te-e-ta-an)
• Hungarian: mellbimbó (hu), csecsbimbó (hu), csecs (hu)
• Ido: mameto (io)
• Ingrian: nännänpää
• Irish: ballán m, dide f
• Italian: tettarella, capezzolo (it) m
• Japanese: 乳首 (ja) (ちくび, chikubi, ちちくび, chichikubi), 乳頭 (ja) (にゅうとう, nyūtō), ニップル (nippuru)
• Korean: 젖꼭지 (ko) (jeotkkokji)
• Latin: papilla f
• Malay: puting (ms)
• Manchu: ᡨᡠᠮᡳᡥᠠ (tumiha)
• Maori: ū, titi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: patte (no) m, brystvorte m or f, sugevorte m or f, spene m

  Nynorsk: patte m or f, brystvorte f, sugevorte f, spene m

• Polish: sutek (pl) m, sutka (pl) f, brodawka sutkowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: mamilo (pt) m, bico do peito (pt) m, mamá m
• Romanian: sfârc (ro), țâță (ro)
• Russian: сосо́к (ru) m (sosók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: си̏са f

  Roman: sȉsa (sh) f

• Spanish: pezón (es) m
• Swedish: bröstvårta (sv) c
• Tarifit: tinɣi f
• Turkish: meme başı (tr)
• Volapük: blötatät (vo)

feeding bottle top

• Bulgarian: цицка f (cicka)
• Burmese: နို့ပုံ (my) (nui.pum), နို့သီးခေါင်း (my) (nui.si:hkaung:)
• Catalan: tetina (ca) f
• Dutch: speen (nl) m
• Esperanto: cicumo (eo)
• Finnish: tutti (fi)
• French: tétine (fr) f
• German: Sauger m
• Greek: θηλή (el) f (thilí)
• Irish: dide f
• Italian: tettarella f
• Japanese: おしゃぶり (oshaburi)
• Maori: titi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smokk (no) m

  Nynorsk: smokk m

• Polish: smoczek (pl)
• Portuguese: chupeta (pt) f, bico (pt) m
• Romanian: tetină (ro) f
• Russian: со́ска (ru) f (sóska)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цуцла f

  Roman: cucla (sh) f

• Spanish: chupete (es) m
• Swedish: tuta (sv) c
• Turkish: biberon emziği

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Erzya: ^{(please verify)} поте (poťe)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} capezzolo (it) m
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 젖꼭지 (ko) (jeotkkokji)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} หัวนม (th) (hua nom) (literally, head-milk)

See also

• breast, mammary gland, tit, udder

Anagrams

• Etta, Tate, Teta, aett, tate