Mamma, mammæ, f. g. Iuuen.A dug: a pay: a teate.Exerta mamma.Virg.Pressis manabunt flumina mammis.Virg.Putres mammæ. Hor. Mammas habent capræ. Plin. Balenæ vitulíque mammis nutriunt fœtus. Fli. Norishe their young by giuing sucke.Mamme porci. Mart. An hogs teates.Vrsæ mammas quaternas gerunt. Plin. Emarcescunt mammæ. Cels. Discendit mamma: cui opponitur Sterilescit ac resilit. Plin. Mamma pro matre vel nutrice. Mart. Mammas atque tatas babet. Afra. Mammes and daddes. Mamma.The dudde of a tree.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mamma, ae, f., = ma:mma, a breast, pap, esp. of females, rarely of males; also, a teat, dug of animals. I.Lit.: puero isti date mammam,
give him the breast, suckle him
, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 1; id. Trin. 5, 1, 16: puer in gremio matris sedens, mammam appetens, Cic. Div. 2, 41, 85: ubera mammarum, Lucr. 5, 885.—Of a man: mammas homo solus e maribus habet, Plin. 11, 39, 95, 232; Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 18; Just. 12, 9 fin.—Of animals, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 18: mammam sugere, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 20: mammas praebere, Plin. 11, 40, 95, 234: mamma sterilescit,
dries up
, id. ib. —II.Transf.A.A protuberance on the bark of a tree, Plin. 17, 16, 26, 118.— B. In the language of children, mother, mamma: cum cibum ac potionem buas ac papas vocent, matrem mammam, patrem tatam, Varr. ap. Non. 81, 4; Mart. 1, 101, 1. —In inscrr., for mother, Inscr. Orell. 2769; 2813; for grandmother, Inscr. Mur. 1134, 3; for nurse, Inscr. Visc. Mus. Pio-Clem. t. 2, p. 82.