titio

See also: titi'o

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tītjō (“heating”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teyh₁- (“to become hot, melt or to end”).

Cognate to Old Irish tinaid (“to melt, disappear”), Middle Welsh odit (“rarity”), Icelandic þíður (“melted, thawed”), Hittite zanuzi (“to cook (trans.)”), zinnizi (“to end, finish”). Also see taeda (“pine-wood, torch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.ti.oː/, [ˈt̪iːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtit.t͡si.o/, [ˈt̪it̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

tītiō m (genitive tītiōnis); third declension

1. firebrand (tool)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tītiō	tītiōnēs
Genitive	tītiōnis	tītiōnum
Dative	tītiōnī	tītiōnibus
Accusative	tītiōnem	tītiōnēs
Ablative	tītiōne	tītiōnibus
Vocative	tītiō	tītiōnēs

Synonyms

• torris

Derived terms

• (Vulgar Latin): *attītiō, *intītiō
• tītiōnor
• tītiōnārium

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: tãciuni
  • Megleno-Romanian: tăciuni
  • Romanian: tăciune
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: tizzonu
  • Italian: tizzone, tizzo
  • ⇒ Italian: stizza
  • Sicilian: tizzuni
• Northern Italian:
  • ⇒ Friulian: stiç
  • Romansch: tizun
  • ⇒ Venetan: stisón
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: tió
  • Old French: tisun
    • French: tison
  • Occitan: tison
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: tizón
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: tiçon
    • Galician: tizón
    • Portuguese: tição
  • Spanish: tizón, tizo

References

• “titio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• titio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈt͡ʃi.u/, /t͡ʃiˈt͡ʃiw/ [t͡ʃiˈt͡ʃiʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tiˈti.u/

• Hyphenation: ti‧ti‧o

Noun

titio m (plural titios)

1. (childish) Alternative form of tio