Noun: teta
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | teta |
| Plural f | tetas |
Sample Sentences
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Quem creyria que Abraã averia fillo emçima de sua velleçe, de sua moller Sarra, et ella sééndo outrosi vella queo criaria aas suas tetas? (Who would have think that Abraham would have a son in spite of his age and that of his wife Sarah, and that she being also old would feed her son with her tits?) [1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV., page 218:]
Nouns inflected like teta
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese teta (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a West Germanic *titta (English tit, Dutch tiet, German Zitze) or either an expressive formation identical to it.
2. Compare Portuguese teta, Spanish teta, French tette. Cf. also Late Latin titta. See: English Nouns '
tit', Dutch Nouns '
tiet', German Nouns '
Zitze', Portuguese Nouns '
teta', Spanish Nouns '
teta', French Nouns '
tette'.
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