τυτώ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, rendering the cry of the owl. See also Latin tutubō (“to cry (of an owl)”) and Lithuanian tutúoti (“first flute, pipe”). Similarly in Greek τοῦτις (toûtis, “blackbird”) and ταύτασος (taútasos, “kind of bird”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tyˈto/ → /tiˈto/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tyˈto/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tyˈto/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tyˈto/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈto/

Noun

τυτώ • (tutṓ) f (genitive τυτοῦς); third declension

1. kind of owl, possibly the barn owl

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ τυτώ; τῆς τυτοῦς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ τυτώ hē tutṓ
Genitive	τῆς τυτοῦς tês tutoûs
Dative	τῇ τυτοῖ têi tutoî
Accusative	τὴν τυτώ tḕn tutṓ
Vocative	τυτοῖ tutoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: τυτώ (tytó)
• → Translingual: Tyto

Further reading

• “τυτώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τυτώ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN