Titus

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪtəs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪtəs

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
6. (dated) A short hairstyle, popular in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

• Titus County
• Titusville

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

• Suitt, Tutsi, tuits

Borrowed from Latin Titus.

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

Titus m

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

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtitus/ [ˈt̪i.t̪ʊs]
• Rhymes: -itus
• Syllabification: Ti‧tus

Titus

1. Titus:
   1. the seventeenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to Titus
   2. an early Christian, the addressee of the aforementioned epistle

• “Titus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪iː.t̪us]

Titus m (genitive Titī); second declension

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

     SENATVS
     POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS
     DIVO·TITO·DIVI·VESPASIANI:

     The Senate and the Roman people (dedicate this)
     to the deified Titus Vespasian Augustus,
     son of the deified Vespasian.

Second-declension noun.

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

• “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.

Titus m (not mutable)

1. (biblical) Paul's Epistle to Titus