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Titanic

See also: titanic

English edit

WOTD – 14 April 2022

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Late Latin Titanicus, or its etymon Ancient Greek Τιτανικός (Titanikós, “of or relating to the Titans”), from Τιτᾶνες (Titânes, “Titans”) + -ικός (-ikós, “suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives”). Τιτᾶνες (Titânes) is the nominative or vocative plural of Τῑτᾱ́ν (Tītā́n, “a Titan”), and then possibly:

The English word is analysable as Titan +‎ -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives from nouns).[1]

Adjective edit

Titanic (not generally comparable, comparative more Titanic, superlative most Titanic)

  1. (not comparable) Of or relating to the Titans, a race of giant gods in Greek mythology.
    Synonyms: (archaic) Titanian, titanical
  2. (by extension)
    1. (comparable) Having great size, or great force, power, or strength.
      (having great size): Synonyms: (archaic) Titanian, titanical; see also Thesaurus:large
      (having great size): Antonyms: see Thesaurus:small
      • 1818, Lord Byron, “Canto IV”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XLVI, page 26:
        Rome—Rome imperial, bows her to the storm, / In the same dust and blackness, and we pass / The skeleton of her Titanic form, / Wrecks of another world, whose ashes still are warm.
      • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Grand Armada”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 430–431:
        And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have overarched the middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs.
    2. (not comparable) Of a conflict or contest: involving equally powerful participants.
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Etymology 2 edit

 
The RMS Titanic.

The proper noun is derived from Titanic (etymology 1, adjective senses 1 and 2.1), as the ship was the largest and thought to be the strongest in the world at the time it was constructed.[2] The common noun is derived from the name of the ship.[3]

Proper noun edit

Titanic

  1. The R.M.S. Titanic, an ocean liner, supposedly unsinkable, that sank on its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.
    The Titanic story inspired a movie considered as one of the best of all time.
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Noun edit

Titanic (plural Titanics)

  1. A venture that fails spectacularly, especially one perceived as overconfident.
    • 1995, Michael S. Dobbs-Higginson, Asia Pacific: Its Role in the New World Disorder, page 437:
      Surely , one doesn't want another Titanic, with everyone sailing along in the serene belief that all will be well
    • 2006, Tracie Peterson, Summer of the Midnight Sun:
      " […] We don't want another Titanic on our hands. Come on, folks, there's plenty of lifeboats for everybody. Make your way down."
    • 2015, Tofara Y Dube, Rise You Downtrodden Blacks:
      It is time that we review them holistically. But is is not easy to move the world. This is a Titanic that will continue to steer towards the iceberg because of its momentum.
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References edit

  1. ^ Compare “titanic, adj.1”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “titanic1, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. ^ “Titanic3, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. ^ “Titanic, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.

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Etymology edit

From English Titanic.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈtitɒnik]
  • Hyphenation: Ti‧ta‧nic
  • Rhymes: -ik

Proper noun edit

Titanic

  1. Titanic (ship)
    • 2019, Gábor Vida, Ahol az ő lelke, 2nd edition, Budapest: Magvető, →ISBN, page 18:
      1914. március 10-én indul Fiuméból a Carpathia nevű gőzös, amely a világ leghíresebb gőzhajója, mióta kimentette a Titanic túlélőit a fagyos Atlanti-óceánból. Drágább is a jegy, mint a többi hajóra, de Werner Sándor a pénzt most az egyszer nem sajnálja.
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Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Titanic —
accusative Titanicot —
dative Titanicnak —
instrumental Titanickal —
causal-final Titanicért —
translative Titanická —
terminative Titanicig —
essive-formal Titanicként —
essive-modal — —
inessive Titanicban —
superessive Titanicon —
adessive Titanicnál —
illative Titanicba —
sublative Titanicra —
allative Titanichoz —
elative Titanicból —
delative Titanicról —
ablative Titanictól —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		Titanicé —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		Titanicéi —
Possessive forms of Titanic
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Titanicom —
2nd person sing. Titanicod —
3rd person sing. Titanicja —
1st person plural Titanicunk —
2nd person plural Titanicotok —
3rd person plural Titanicjuk —

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Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English Titanic.

Pronunciation edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌt͡ʃi.tɐˈni.ki/, /ˌt͡ʃi.tɐˈnik/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌt͡ʃi.tɐˈnik/, /ˌt͡ʃi.tɐˈni.ki/

Proper noun edit

Titanic m

  1. Titanic (ship)
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