Tiro

See also: tiro, tīro, tirò, and tiró

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Tyrus (Tyre), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician; see Tyre for more information.

Proper noun

Tiro m

  1. Tyre (city)

Latin

Etymology

Probably use as a proper name of the common noun tīrō (new recruit”, “novice”, “young man).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tīrō m (genitive Tīrōnis); third declension

  1. A masculine cognomen — famously held by:
    1. Marcus Tullius Tiro (103–4 BC), freedman of and secretary to M. Tullius Cicero, and inventor of the Tironian notes

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular
Nominative Tīrō
Genitive Tīrōnis
Dative Tīrōnī
Accusative Tīrōnem
Ablative Tīrōne
Vocative Tīrō

Derived terms

References

  • Tīro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 2 Tīro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,578/1”
  • Tīrō²” on page 1,943/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading


Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin Tyrus (Tyre), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros), from Phoenician; see Tyre for more information.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tiro f

  1. Tyre (an ancient city-state in Phoenicia)
  2. Tyre (a port city in Lebanon)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Tyrus (Tyre), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician; see Tyre for more information.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈti.ɾo̞]

Proper noun

Tiro f

  1. Tyre (a city in Lebanon)
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