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/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

teat (plural teats)

(anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian 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
Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
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.

Derived terms

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: patte (da) c, 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)
Gujarati: આંચળ m (ā̃caḷ), આઉ (gu) n (āu)
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
Danish: sut c
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 (ja) (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)

Anagrams

Etta, Tate, Teta, aett, tate