Ancient Greek

Noun

τέττῑξ • ‎(téttīx) m ‎(genitive τέττῑγος or τέττῑκος); third declension

1. cicada (Cicada plebeia or allied species; a winged insect fond of basking on trees, when the male makes a chirping or clicking noise by means of certain drums or “tymbals” underneath its wings)
   • Choerob., in Theod. 1.292.H.
   • Xenarch. 14
   • 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 143
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.151
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 582
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 393
   • 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Collected Works 173–174
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 262.d
   • Aristopho 10.7
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Weather Signs 54
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1360
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 259.c
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 532.b.13
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 4.16
   • Palatine Anthology 6.120.Leon.
   • Anacreont. 32
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.660.f
   • 250–350 BC, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 4.133.b
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Frr. 51
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Frr. 569.4
   • 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis 162.13
   • Anaxandr. 41.59
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 2.51
   • 320 CE – 400 CE, Oribasius, Fr. 64
2. a gold ornament worn in the hair, especially in early Attica
   • Asius, Fr.Ep. 13.5
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.6
   • 250–350 BC, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 12.512.c
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 984
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 980
   • Michel 832.51
3. a part of the ear
   • 100 CE – 200 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.86

Declension

Derived terms

• Ἀκάνθιος τέττῑξ ‎(Akánthios téttīx)
• τέττῑξ ἐνάλιος ‎(téttīx enálios)
• Τέττῑξ ‎(Téttīx)

Descendants

• English: tettix
• Greek: τζίτζικας ‎(tzítzikas)

References

• τέττιξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press