teth

American  

[tet, tes] / tɛt, tɛs /

noun

1. the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.

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teth British  

/ tɛt, tɛs /

noun

1. the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ט) transliterated as t and pronounced more or less like English t with pharyngeal articulation

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Etymology

Origin of teth

From Hebrew

Example Sentences

Thy teth also ne pike not with the knyff ...

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

Thei are diuers sortes of sentences, one exhor- teth, an other diswadeth, some onely sheweth: there is a sen- tence simple, compounde, profitable, true, & soche like.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard

There is redundancy in the two forms for k, namely kaph and koph; in the two for t, namely teth and tau; and in the two for s, namely samech and shin.

From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George

With þe neue he robert sette Biforn þe teth a dint ful strong.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

Now I shall sorrowfully sithien from the. depart from thee; nu beoth thine teth atru.

From The Departing Soul's Address to the Body A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem, Discovered Among the Archives of Worcester Cathedral by Singer, Samuel Weller