teat

See also: teát

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *titta, from Proto-Germanic *titt- (“teat; nipple; breast”), from Proto-Indo-European *tata- (“father; parent; nipple”).

It replaced Old English titt, which survives as tit. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

teat (plural teats)

1. (anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.

   Synonyms: tit, 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

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Translations

projection of mammary gland

• Arabic: حَلَمَة f (ḥalama), خِلْف m (ḵilf)
• Aromanian: tsãtsã f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: struk (cs) m, bradavka f
• Danish: pat c, brøstvårte c
• Dutch: tepel (nl) c
• Esperanto: cico, mampinto (eo)
• Finnish: nänni (fi)
• French: trayon (fr) m
• German: Brustwarze (de) f
• Greek: θηλή (el) f (thilí)
• Hittite: 𒋼𒂊𒋫𒀭 (te-e-ta-an)
• Hungarian: mellbimbó (hu)
• Ido: mameto (io)
• Italian: tettarella, capezzolo (it) m
• Japanese: 乳首 (ちくび, chikubi, ちちくび, chichikubi), 乳頭 (にゅうとう, nyūtō), ニップル (nippuru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: papilla f
• Malay: puting
• Maori: ū, titi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: patte (no) m

  Nynorsk: patte m or f

• 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
• Turkish: meme başı (tr)
• Volapük: blötatät (vo)

feeding bottle top

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

  Bokmål: smokk (no) m

  Nynorsk: smokk m

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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, aett, tate