Other forms: teats
A teat is the part of a female animal a young one sucks from. A cow's teat, four teats, teat of a bottle.
The number varies with the litter size the species evolved for — a cow has four and a sow has a dozen or more. On a baby's bottle the rubber part is also a teat, which is the commonest use of the word in a house. Note that the word is imitative in origin and shared across Germanic.
1nounteatThe part of a female animal a young one sucks from.
“The newborn calf searched for its mother's teat and began to drink.”
teat is a body part.
Old French tete comes from a Frankish word, ultimately imitative of a baby's sound. English tit is the native form of the same word.
Proto-Germanic
*tittaz — teat; nipple; breast
Frankish
*tittā
Old French
tete — teat
Middle English
tete
English, today
teat
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 imitative of the sound origin. Compare Old High German zizza {{gl|"teat"; modern {{cog|de|
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA