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‖ tettix|ˈtɛtɪks|
[a. Gr. τέττιξ.]
1. The cicada or tree-cricket, a homopterous winged insect: so called by the ancient Greeks, and hence in reference to Greece, Greek poets, etc. The South European species is Cicada orni.
1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 343 The tettix or cicada in the day-time is extremely troublesome. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxiv. (1818) II. 402 One bard entreats the shepherds to spare the innoxious Tettixs, that nightingale of the Nymphs. 1871M. Collins Inn of Strange Meetings 40 Anacreon's tettix, singing in the trees. 1900Daily News 13 Dec. 5/2 The much-sung ‘tettix’, or cicada.
2. Entom. A genus of Acridiidæ, or short-horned grasshoppers, typical of the orthopterous subfamily Tettiginæ, having the pronotum horizontal and the antennæ thirteen- or fourteen-jointed. Two species are known in Britain and nine in U.S.
3. golden tettix (Gr. χρυσοῦς τέττιξ), an ornament worn in the hair by Athenians before Solon's time, as an emblem of their being aboriginal.
1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece v. 135 Fastened their hair with a golden tettix. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 441 Citizens Like Aristeides and like Miltiades Wore each a golden tettix in his hair. |