Tiro

See also: tiro, tīro, tirò, and tiró

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician [Term?]; see Tyre for more information.

Proper noun

Tiro m

1. Tyre (an ancient city-state in Phoenicia)
2. Tyre (a port city, the capital of Tyre district, Lebanon)

Anagrams

• irto, orti, otri, rito, roti, tori, trio

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.roː/, [ˈt̪iːroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ro/, [ˈt̪iːro]
• Homophone: tīrō

Proper noun

Tīrō m sg (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 noun, singular only.

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

Derived terms

• Tīrōniānus

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

• Marcus Tullius Tiro on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Tyro (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician [Term?]; see Tyre for more information.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾu/

• Homophone: tiro
• Hyphenation: Ti‧ro

Proper noun

Tiro f

1. Tyre (an ancient city-state in Phoenicia)
2. Tyre (a port city, the capital of Tyre district, Lebanon)

Related terms

• tírio

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician [Term?]; see Tyre for more information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾo/ [ˈt̪i.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -iɾo
• Syllabification: Ti‧ro

Proper noun

Tiro f

1. Tyre (an ancient city-state in Phoenicia)
2. Tyre (a port city, the capital of Tyre district, Lebanon)

Derived terms

• púrpura de Tiro

 

Related terms

• tirio