titulus

Latin titulus

titulus (plural tituli)

1. A caption, title or other inscription, especially an Ancient Roman type.

Most likely from Etruscan.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.tu.lus/, [ˈtɪ.tʊ.ɫʊs]

titulus m (genitive titulī); second declension

1. title
2. placard, tablet
3. inscription
4. epitaph

Second-declension noun.

• Vulgar Latin: [Term?]
  • Catalan: títol
  • French: titre
  • Italian: titolo
  • Ladin: titul
  • Portuguese: título
  • Spanish: título, tilde
• → Ancient Greek: τίτλος (títlos)
  • Greek: τίτλος (títlos)
  • → Old Armenian: տիտղոս (titłos), տիտլոս (titlos)
• → Aramaic: [Term?]
  • Classical Syriac: ܛܝܛܠܘܣ‎ (ṭīṭlōs)
• → Czech: titul
• → Dutch: titel
• → German: Titel
• → Icelandic: titill
• → Old Armenian: թուղթ (tʿułtʿ) (perhaps)
  • Armenian: թուղթ (tʿułtʿ)
• → Old English: titul
  • Middle English: titel
    • English: title
• → Old Irish: titul
  • Irish: teideal
• → Polish: tytuł
  • → Russian: титул (titul)

• titulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• titulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• titulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• titulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• titulus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers