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τιτιγόνιον

From LSJ

Νέµουσι δ' οἴκους καὶ τὰ ναυστολούµενα ἔσω δόµων σῴζουσιν, οὐδ' ἐρηµίᾳ γυναικὸς οἶκος εὐπινὴς οὐδ' ὄλβιος → They manage households, and save what is brought by sea within the home, and no house deprived of a woman can be tidy and prosperous

Euripides, Melanippe Captiva, Fragment 6.11
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Full diacritics: τιτιγόνιον Medium diacritics: τιτιγόνιον Low diacritics: τιτιγόνιον Capitals: ΤΙΤΙΓΟΝΙΟΝ
Transliteration A: titigónion Transliteration B: titigonion Transliteration C: titigonion Beta Code: titigo/nion

English (LSJ)

τό, an insect like a τέττιξ, Epil.4 (where τιττιγόνιον cod.Phot., the alphabetical order requiring τιτιγόνιον; τρυγονίῳ codd.ACAth., cf. ζῷον ὅμοιον τέττιγι καὶ τριγονίῳ Eust.1282.40), prob. cj. in Arist.HA556a20 (where τεττιγόνια, with v.l. τριγόνια, cf. τιγόνιον· εἶδός τι Ἀριστοτέλει, Hsch., τιγόνιον· ἐπὶ νηπίου τίθεται, Phot.); the word is correctly written in EM760.47, Paus.Gr.Fr. 87 (ap.Eust.396.2, where it is rightly connected with τιτίζω: it is prob. Dim. of Τιτιγών (τιτιγών: τιτίζω, = ὀλολυγών: ὀλολύζω, = τρυγών: τρύζω)). (Perh. to be restored for tetogonia, v.l. tetigometrae, in Plin.HN11.92.)

Greek Monolingual

τὸ, Α
είδος εντόμου παρόμοιου με το τζιτζίκι.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Η λ. έχει σχηματιστεί μέσω αμάρτυρου τ. τιτιγών (πρβλ. ἀηδών, τρυγών, χελιδών), με επίθημα -ιον (πρβλ. αηδόν-ιον,) από ρ. τιτίζω, προϊόν ονοματοποιίας (πρβλ. τιττυβίζω, ψιθυρίζω)].

Frisk Etymology German

τιτιγόνιον: {titigónion}
Grammar: n.
Meaning: N. eines τέττιξ-ähnlichen Insekts (Epil. Kom., Paus. Gr., EM, Eust.).
Etymology: Setzt zunächst ein *τιτιγών voraus (vgl. τρυγών, χελιδών, ἀηδών, alle mit -όνιον); ein onomatopoetisches τιτίζω, τιτίζοντας zwitschern wurde von Zenod. in Β 314 für τετριγῶτας gelegen. Rückbildung τιτίς, -ίδος f. N. eines kleinen Vogels, auch pudendum muliebre (Phot.). Daneben τίτυρος, τιτύρας als Vogelnamen (H.).
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Translations

Ainu: ヤキ; Albanian: gjinkallë; Arabic: زِيز‎, زيزيات; Armenian: կնճիթավոր ճպուռ, ցիկադա; Old Armenian: ճպուռն; Belarusian: цыка́да; Bengali: উচ্চিংড়ে; Bulgarian: цикада, жътвар; Burmese: ပုစဉ်းရင်ကွဲ; Catalan: cigala; Chepang: लीर्‌; Cherokee: ᎶᎶ; Chinese Mandarin: 蟬, 蝉, 知了; Czech: cikáda; Danish: cikade; Dutch: cicade; English: cicada; Esperanto: cikado; Estonian: tirt, tsikaad; Finnish: laulukaskas; French: cigale; Galician: carricanta, carriola, relo, cantaruxa, albariña; German: Zikade; Greek: τζιτζίκι, τζίτζικας; Cypriot Greek: ζίζιρος; Ancient Greek: τέττιξ, κερκώπη, μέμβραξ, τιτιγόνιον, τεττιγόνιον, ἠχέτης, ἀκανθίας; Hindi: शलभ, सिकाडा, झींगुर, झीँगुर; Hungarian: kabóca; Ilocano: andidit; Indonesian: tonggeret; Italian: cicala; Japanese: 蝉, セミ; Javanese: tonggèrèt; Khmer: រៃ; Korean: 매미, 쓰르라미; Lao: ຈັກຈັ່ນ; Latin: cicāda; Latvian: cikāde; Lithuanian: cikada; Macedonian: цикада; Malagasy: jorery; Malay: reriang; Malayalam: ചീവീട്; Manchu: ᠪᡳᠶᠠᠩᠰᡳᡴᡡ; Maori: tātarakihi; Mirandese: checharra; Navajo: wóóneeshchʼįįdii; Norwegian Bokmål: sikade; Persian: زنجره‎; Punjabi: ਬੀਂਡਾ; Polish: cykada; Portuguese: cigarra; Romanian: cicadă, cicoare; Russian: цикада; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: цврчак, цикада; Roman: cvrčak, cikada; Slovak: cikáda; Slovene: škržat; Spanish: chicharra, cigarra, coyuyo; Swedish: cikada; Tagalog: kulilis, kuliglig; Thai: จักจั่น; Ukrainian: цика́да; Vietnamese: ve sầu; Volapük: zikad; Zhuang: bid; fa: زنجره‌واران; ilo: andidit; ja: セミ; lv: cikāžu virsdzimta; ml: ചീവീട്; sw: nyenje-miti; zh_yue: 沙蟬