Titus

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Titus, a Roman and Sabine praenomen meaning either "honorable" or "strong; of the giants".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪtəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪtəs

Proper noun

Titus

1. The seventeenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to Titus.

   Synonyms: (abbreviation) Tit., (abbreviation) Tts

2. An early Christian, the addressee of the aforementioned epistle.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 12:18:
     :

     I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

3. Titus Caesar Vespasianus, a Roman Emperor who succeeded Vespasian and preceded Domitian.
4. A male given name from Latin.
5. A surname

Derived terms

• Titus County
• Titusville

Translations

book of the Bible

Afrikaans: Titus (af) Arabic: الرسالة إلى تيطس Armenian: Թուղթ առ Տիտոս (Tʻuġtʻ aṙ Titos) Basque: Tito (eu) Breton: Titoz (br) m Bulgarian: Тит m (Tit) Burmese: တိတု​ဩဝါဒစာ (ti.tu.​au:wada.ca) Catalan: Titus Cebuano: Tito Chinese: Cantonese: 提多書／提多书 (tai4 do1 syu1) Eastern Min: 提多書／提多书 (Tì-dŏ̤ Cṳ̆) Mandarin: 提多書／提多书 (zh) (Tíduōshū) Corsican: Tito (co) Czech: Titus Danish: Titusbrevet n (definite form) Dutch: Titus (nl) m Estonian: Titusele Faroese: Titus (fo) m Finnish: Kirje Titukselle French: Tite (fr) m Georgian: ტიტუსი (ṭiṭusi) German: Titus (de) Greek: Τίτος (el) m (Títos) Ancient: Τίτος m (Títos) Greenlandic: Titusi (kl) Hawaiian: Tito Hindi: तीतॉस (tītŏs) Hungarian: Titusz (hu) Icelandic: Títus m Ido: Titus m Irish: Litir Naomh Pól chuig Títeas f, Títeas (ga) m Italian: Tito (it) Japanese: テトスへの手紙 (Tetosu e no Tegami) Khmer: ទីតុស (tiitoh) Konkani: तिताक पावलुचें पत्र (titāk pāvlucẽ patra) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: تیتۆس (tîtos) Latin: Titus (la) m Latvian: Titam (lv) m Lavukaleve: Titus Limburgish: Titus Lithuanian: Laiškas Titui (lt) m Maltese: Titu (mt) m Manx: Titus (gv) Maori: Taituha (mi) Marathi: तीताला (tītālā) Nepali: तीतस (tītas) Ngazidja Comorian: Tito Norwegian: Titus (no) m Odia: ତୀତସଙ୍କ ପ୍ରତି ପତ୍ର (titasaṅka prati patra) Persian: تایتوس Polish: List do Tytusa Portuguese: Tito (pt) m Punjabi: ਤੀਤੁਸ ਨੂੰ (tītus nū̃) Romanian: Tit m Scots: Titus Scottish Gaelic: Titius (gd) m Serbo-Croatian: Титу Slovak: Títovi m Slovene: Tit (sl) m Spanish: Tito (es) m Swahili: Tito (sw) Swedish: Titus m Tagalog: Tito (tl) m Thai: ทิตัส Urdu: طِطُس (titus) Waray-Waray: Tito Welsh: Titus (cy) m West Frisian: Titus Zealandic: Titus

biblical character

Afrikaans: Titus (af) Armenian: Տիտոս (hy) (Titos) Basque: Tito (eu) Breton: Titoz (br) m Bulgarian: Тит m (Tit) Cebuano: Tito Chinese: Cantonese: 提多 (tai4 do1) Eastern Min: 提多 (Tì-dŏ̤) Mandarin: 提多 (zh) (Tíduō) Corsican: Tito (co) Czech: Titus Danish: Titus Dutch: Titus (nl) m Estonian: Tiitus Faroese: Titus (fo) m Finnish: Titus (fi) French: Tite (fr) Georgian: ტიტუსი (ṭiṭusi) German: Titus (de) Greek: Τίτος (el) m (Títos) Ancient: Τίτος m (Títos) Greenlandic: Titusi (kl) Hawaiian: Tito Hungarian: Titusz (hu) Icelandic: Títus m Ido: Titus m Irish: Títeas (ga) m Italian: Tito (it) Japanese: テトス (Tetosu) Latin: Titus (la) m Latvian: Titam (lv) m Lavukaleve: Titus Limburgish: Titus Lithuanian: Titus m Maltese: Titu (mt) m Manx: Titus (gv) Maori: Taituha (mi) Norwegian: Titus (no) Polish: Tytus (pl) Portuguese: Tito (pt) m Romanian: Tit m Russian: Тит (ru) m (Tit) Scots: Titus Scottish Gaelic: Titius (gd) m Slovak: Títovi m Slovene: Tit (sl) m Spanish: Tito (es) Swahili: Tito (sw) Swedish: Titus Tagalog: Tito (tl) m Waray-Waray: Tito Welsh: Titus (cy) m West Frisian: Titus Zealandic: Titus

Roman Emperor

Afrikaans: Titus (af) sg Armenian: Տիտոս (hy) (Titos) Basque: Tito (eu) sg Breton: Titoz (br) m Bulgarian: Тит m (Tit) Cebuano: Tito Chinese: Eastern Min: 提多 (Tì-dŏ̤) Corsican: Tito (co) Czech: Titus m Danish: Titus n Dutch: Titus (nl) m Estonian: Titus sg Faroese: Titus (fo) m Finnish: Titus (fi) sg French: Tite (fr) m Georgian: ტიტუსი (ṭiṭusi) German: Titus (de) m Greek: Τίτος (el) m (Títos) Ancient: Τίτος m (Títos) Greenlandic: Titusi (kl) Hawaiian: Tito Hebrew: טִיטוּס הָרָשָׁע m (títus harashá), טִיטוּס m (títus) Hungarian: Titusz (hu) sg Icelandic: Títus m Ido: Titus Irish: Títeas (ga) m Italian: Tito (it) m Japanese: テトス (Tetosu) Latin: Titus (la) m Latvian: Titam (lv) m Lavukaleve: Titus Limburgish: Titus Lithuanian: Titus m Maltese: Titu (mt) m Manx: Titus (gv) Maori: Taituha (mi) Norwegian: Titus (no) m Polish: Tytus (pl) m Portuguese: Tito (pt) m Romanian: Tit m Scots: Titus Scottish Gaelic: Titius (gd) m Slovak: Títovi m Slovene: Tit (sl) m Spanish: Tito (es) m Swahili: Titus Swedish: Titus n Tagalog: Tito (tl) Waray-Waray: Tito Welsh: Titus (cy) m West Frisian: Titus n Yiddish: טיטוס הרשע (titus horoshe) Zealandic: Titus

male given name

Afrikaans: Titus (af) Armenian: Տիտոս (hy) (Titos) Basque: Tito (eu) Breton: Titoz (br) m Bulgarian: Тит m (Tit) Cebuano: Tito Chinese: Eastern Min: 提多 (Tì-dŏ̤) Mandarin: 泰特斯 (Tàitèsī) Corsican: Tito (co) Czech: Titus Danish: Titus Dutch: Titus (nl) m Estonian: Tiit Faroese: Titus (fo) m Finnish: Tiitus (fi) French: Tite (fr) m Georgian: ტიტუსი (ṭiṭusi) German: Titus (de) Greek: Τίτος (el) (Títos) Ancient: Τίτος m (Títos) Greenlandic: Titusi (kl) Hawaiian: Tito Hebrew: טִיטוּס m (títus) Hungarian: Titusz (hu) Icelandic: Títus m Ido: Titus m Ingrian: Titova Irish: Títeas (ga) m Italian: Tito (it) Japanese: テトス (Tetosu) Latin: Titus (la) m Latvian: Titam (lv) m Lavukaleve: Titus Limburgish: Titus Lithuanian: Titus m Maltese: Titu (mt) m Manx: Titus (gv) Maori: Taituha (mi) Norwegian: Titus (no) m Polish: Tytus (pl) m Portuguese: Tito (pt) m Romanian: Tit m, Titu m, Titus m Russian: Тит (ru) m (Tit) Scots: Titus Scottish Gaelic: Titius (gd) m Slovak: Títovi m Slovene: Tit (sl) m Spanish: Tito (es) Swahili: Tito (sw) Swedish: Titus m Tagalog: Tito (tl) m Waray-Waray: Tito Welsh: Titus (cy) m West Frisian: Titus Zealandic: Titus

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Maltese: (please verify) Titu (mt)

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Titus”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears

Anagrams

• Suitt, Tutsi, tuits

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Titus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈti.tus]

Proper noun

Titus m

1. (biblical) Titus (book of the Bible)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈti.tus/, [ˈt̪ɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.tus/, [ˈt̪iːt̪us]

Proper noun

Titus m (genitive Titī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen.
   • c. 82 C.E., Arch of Titus:

     SENATVS
     POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS
     DIVO·TITO·DIVI·VESPASIANI

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Titus	Titī
Genitive	Titī	Titōrum
Dative	Titō	Titīs
Accusative	Titum	Titōs
Ablative	Titō	Titīs
Vocative	Tite	Titī

Descendants

• Catalan: Titus
• English: Titus
• Italian: Tito
• Sicilian: Titu
• Spanish: Tito

References

• “Titus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Titus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.