tetta

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin titta, titia, from Frankish *titta, from Proto-Germanic *titt- (“teat; nipple; breast”), from Proto-Indo-European *tata- (“father; parent; nipple”).

Compare also French tette, Spanish and Portuguese teta, Romanian țâță, English teat. The word is found in many European languages and may simply be ultimately an expressive formation based on infantile language.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈtet.ta/
  • Rhymes: -etta
  • Hyphenation: tét‧ta

Noun[edit]

tetta f (plural tette)

  1. (informal, vulgar) boob, booby, tit, jug (slang expression for breast)
    Synonyms: poppa, mammella

See also[edit]

Mayo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïn-ta.

Noun[edit]

tetta (plural téttam)

  1. stone, rock

References[edit]

  • Collard, Howard, Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984) Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6)‎[1] (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 83, 189

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

tetta

  1. inflection of tette:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle
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