titio

See also: titi'o

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tītjō (“heating”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teih₁- (“to become hot, melt or to end”).

Cognate to Old Irish tinaid (“to melt, disappear”), Middle Welsh odit (“rarity”), Icelandic þíður (“melted, thawed”), Hittite zanuzi (“to cook (trans.)”), zinnizi (“to end, finish”). Also see taeda (“pine-wood, torch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.ti.oː/, [ˈt̪iːt̪ioː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtit.t͡si.o/, [ˈt̪it̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

tītiō m (genitive tītiōnis); third declension

1. firebrand

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tītiō	tītiōnēs
Genitive	tītiōnis	tītiōnum
Dative	tītiōnī	tītiōnibus
Accusative	tītiōnem	tītiōnēs
Ablative	tītiōne	tītiōnibus
Vocative	tītiō	tītiōnēs

Synonyms

• torris

Derived terms

• (Vulgar Latin): *attītiō, *intītiō

Descendants

• Aromanian: tãciuni
• Catalan: tió
• Corsican: tizzonu
• Old French: tisun
  • French: tison
• ⇒ Friulian: stiç
• Italian: tizzone, tizzo
• ⇒ Italian: stizza
• Occitan: tison

• Old Portuguese: tiçon
  • Galician: tizón
  • Portuguese: tição
• Romanian: tăciune
• Romansch: tizun
• Sicilian: tizzuni
• Spanish: tizón, tizo
• ⇒ Venetian: stisón

References

• “titio”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• titio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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Portuguese

Noun

titio m (plural titios)

1. (childish) Alternative form of tio