English

Proper noun

Titus

1. The seventeenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to Titus.
2. An early Christian, the addressee of the aforementioned epistle.
3. A male given name.

Quotations

• 1611, Bible (KJV), Corinthians-Chapter-12/#18 2 Corinthians 12:18::

  I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

Related terms

• Tit.
• Tts

Translations

Anagrams

• tuits
• Tutsi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.tus/, [ˈtɪ.tʊs]

Proper noun

Titus m ‎(genitive Titī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen.
   • c. 82 CE, Arch of Titus:

     SENATVS

     POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS

     DIVO·TITO·DIVI·VESPASIANI

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: Titus
• Italian: Tito
• Spanish: Tito

References

• Titus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Titus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.