different between teat vs teas

English

Etymology

From Middle English tete, from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *titta, from Proto-Germanic *titt- (“teat; nipple; breast”), ultimately of expressive origin. Doublet of tit, which is inherited.

It displaced Old English titt, which survives as tit. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

teat (plural teats)

1. (anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.

   Synonyms: tit (now vulgar), pap, nipple, dug

2. Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
3. An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

Quotations

Translations

See also

• breast, mammary gland, tit, udder

Anagrams

• Etta, Tate, Teta, aett, tate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?z/
• Rhymes: -i?z
• Homophones: tease, tees

Noun

teas

1. plural of tea

Verb

teas

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tea

Anagrams

• AEST, ESTA, East, SEAT, Seat, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seat, seta, tase

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”), from Proto-Celtic *texstus, from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“hot”). Cognate with Welsh tes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?as?/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /t?æs?/

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teasa)

1. heat, warmth
2. passion
3. feverishness

Declension

Synonyms

• (heat, warmth): teocht

Derived terms

• teas adamhach (“atomic heat”)
• teas folaigh (“latent heat”)

Related terms

• te (“hot, warm”, adjective)

Mutation

References

• "teas" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 tess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”).

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teas, no plural)

1. heat

Derived terms

• ain-teas
• teasachadh (“heating”)
• teasadair (“heater”)
• teasaich (“heat (up)”)
• teas-mheidh (“thermometer”)

Related terms

• teodhachd (“temperature”)
• teth (“hot”)

Spanish

Noun

teas f

1. plural of tea