Tiare

From Tahitian Tiare, from tiare, a small white gardenia (Gardenia tahitiensis ), the national flower of Tahiti.

Tiare

1. A female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     Tiare — her father had called her by the name of the white, scented flower which, they tell you, if you have once smelt, will always draw you back to Tahiti in the end, however far you may have roamed — Tiare remembered Strickland very well.

• Artie, irate, raite, retia, terai

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tiˈaː.reː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪͡s̪iˈaː.re]

Tiārē f sg (genitive Tiārēs); first declension

1. a town in Mysia, mentioned by Pliny

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• Tiārēnus

• Tiare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Thiare

Tiare ?

1. a female given name

• Tiare was the 77th and Thiare the 74th most common name for girls born in Chile in 2005.

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