Standard Lemma guide

teat

name · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /tiːt/
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  • rhymes with -iːt
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1

name

Meaning 1

A surname from German.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

the small projection of a mammary gland

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: nipple, mammilla, mamilla, pap, tit

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: reproductive organ, sex organ

History

Etymology

Probably an Americanized spelling of German Thiet, itself a variant of Thiede.

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”).

Across languages

Translations

100 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: حَلَمَة (ḥalama) — projection of mammary gland
  • Arabic: خِلْف (ḵilf) — projection of mammary gland
  • Aromanian: tsãtsã — projection of mammary gland
  • Bulgarian: цицка (cicka) — projection of mammary gland
  • Bulgarian: зърно на гърдата (zǎrno na gǎrdata) — projection of mammary gland
  • Chinese Mandarin: 奶頭 /奶头 (nǎitóu) — projection of mammary gland
  • Chinese Mandarin: 乳頭 /乳头 (rǔtóu) — projection of mammary gland
  • Czech: struk — projection of mammary gland
  • Czech: bradavka — projection of mammary gland
  • Danish: patte — projection of mammary gland
  • Danish: pat — projection of mammary gland
  • Danish: brystvorte — projection of mammary gland
  • Dutch: speen — projection of mammary gland
  • Dutch: tepel — projection of mammary gland
  • Esperanto: cico — projection of mammary gland
  • Esperanto: mampinto — projection of mammary gland
  • Finnish: nänni — projection of mammary gland
  • French: trayon — projection of mammary gland
  • German: Brustwarze — projection of mammary gland
  • Greek: θηλή (thilí) — projection of mammary gland
  • Ancient Greek: θηλή (thēlḗ) — projection of mammary gland
  • Gujarati: આંચળ (ā̃caḷ) — projection of mammary gland
  • Gujarati: આઉ (āu) — projection of mammary gland
  • Hindi: चुचुक (cucuk) — projection of mammary gland
  • Hindi: स्तनाग्र (stanāgra) — projection of mammary gland
  • Hittite: 𒋼𒂊𒋫𒀭 (te-e-ta-an) — projection of mammary gland
  • Hungarian: mellbimbó — projection of mammary gland
  • Hungarian: csecsbimbó — projection of mammary gland
  • Hungarian: csecs — projection of mammary gland
  • Ido: mameto — projection of mammary gland
  • Ingrian: nännänpää — projection of mammary gland
  • Irish: ballán — projection of mammary gland
  • Irish: dide — projection of mammary gland
  • Italian: tettarella — projection of mammary gland
  • Italian: capezzolo — projection of mammary gland
  • Japanese: 乳首 — projection of mammary gland
  • Japanese: 乳頭 (nyūtō) — projection of mammary gland
  • Japanese: ニップル (nippuru) — projection of mammary gland
  • Korean: 젖꼭지 (jeotkkokji) — projection of mammary gland
  • Latin: papilla — projection of mammary gland
  • Malay: puting — projection of mammary gland
  • Manchu: ᡨᡠᠮᡳᡥᠠ (tumiha) — projection of mammary gland
  • Māori: ū — projection of mammary gland
  • Māori: titi — projection of mammary gland
  • Norwegian Bokmål: patte — projection of mammary gland
  • Norwegian Bokmål: brystvorte — projection of mammary gland
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sugevorte — projection of mammary gland
  • Norwegian Bokmål: spene — projection of mammary gland
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: patte — projection of mammary gland
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: brystvorte — projection of mammary gland
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sugevorte — projection of mammary gland
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: spene — projection of mammary gland
  • Polish: sutek — projection of mammary gland
  • Polish: sutka — projection of mammary gland
  • Polish: brodawka sutkowa — projection of mammary gland
  • Portuguese: mamilo — projection of mammary gland
  • Portuguese: bico do peito — projection of mammary gland
  • Portuguese: mamá — projection of mammary gland
  • Romanian: sfârc — projection of mammary gland
  • Romanian: țâță — projection of mammary gland
  • Russian: сосо́к (sosók) — projection of mammary gland
  • Serbo-Croatian: си̏са — projection of mammary gland
  • Serbo-Croatian: sȉsa — projection of mammary gland
  • Spanish: pezón — projection of mammary gland
  • Swedish: bröstvårta — projection of mammary gland
  • Tarifit: tinɣi — projection of mammary gland
  • Turkish: meme başı — projection of mammary gland
  • Ottoman Turkish: امجیك (emcik) — projection of mammary gland
  • Volapük: blötatät — projection of mammary gland
  • Bulgarian: цицка (cicka) — feeding bottle top
  • Burmese: နို့ပုံ (nui.pum) — feeding bottle top
  • Burmese: နို့သီးခေါင်း (nui.si:hkaung:) — feeding bottle top
  • Catalan: tetina — feeding bottle top
  • Danish: sut — feeding bottle top
  • Dutch: speen — feeding bottle top
  • Esperanto: cicumo — feeding bottle top
  • Finnish: tutti — feeding bottle top
  • French: tétine — feeding bottle top
  • German: Sauger — feeding bottle top
  • Greek: θηλή (thilí) — feeding bottle top
  • Hindi: चुचुक (cucuk) — feeding bottle top
  • Hungarian: cucli — feeding bottle top
  • Irish: dide — feeding bottle top
  • Italian: tettarella — feeding bottle top
  • Japanese: おしゃぶり (oshaburi) — feeding bottle top
  • Māori: titi — feeding bottle top
  • Norwegian Bokmål: smokk — feeding bottle top
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: smokk — feeding bottle top
  • Polish: smoczek — feeding bottle top
  • Portuguese: chupeta — feeding bottle top
  • Portuguese: bico — feeding bottle top
  • Romanian: tetină — feeding bottle top
  • Russian: со́ска (sóska) — feeding bottle top
  • Serbo-Croatian: цуцла — feeding bottle top
  • Serbo-Croatian: cucla — feeding bottle top
  • Spanish: chupete — feeding bottle top
  • Spanish: tete — feeding bottle top
  • Spanish: tetina — feeding bottle top
  • Swedish: tuta — feeding bottle top
  • Turkish: biberon emziği — feeding bottle top