tette

French

Etymology

From Old French tete, probably from Frankish or West Germanic *titta. Compare Dutch tiet, German Zitze, English tit. Cf. also Late Latin titta, Italian tetta, Spanish and Portuguese teta. Possibly ultimately an expressive formation found in many languages.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

tette f (plural tettes)

  1. nipple (of an animal)

See also

Further reading


Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛtːɛ]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: tet‧te

Etymology 1

tett + -e (possessive suffix)

Noun

tette

  1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of tett
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative tette
accusative tettét
dative tettének
instrumental tettével
causal-final tettéért
translative tettévé
terminative tettéig
essive-formal tetteként
essive-modal tettéül
inessive tettében
superessive tettén
adessive tetténél
illative tettébe
sublative tettére
allative tettéhez
elative tettéből
delative tettéről
ablative tettétől

Etymology 2

tesz + -te

Verb

tette

  1. third-person singular indicative past definite of tesz
    Ki tette ezt?Who did this?

Interlingue

Noun

tette (plural tettes)

  1. nipple

Italian

Noun

tette f

  1. plural of tetta

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

tette

  1. definite singular of tett
  2. plural form of tett

Verb

tette (imperative tett, present tense tetter, passive tettes, simple past and past participle tetta or tettet, present participle tettende)

  1. to tighten
  2. to caulk, fill, seal

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

tette

  1. definite singular of tett
  2. plural of tett
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