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ti¹

  • /tiː/

Sounds like T, te, tea, tee · Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

Coined by English music educator Sarah Anna Glover in 1812 as an alteration of si for her solmization, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter, from Middle English si (“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian si in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials of Latin Sāncte Iohannēs (“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

noun tis

  1. A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

    Similar: si

ti²

  • /tiː/

Sounds like T, te, tea, tee · Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From a Polynesian language, related to Hawaiian kī.

noun tis · ki

  1. A good luck plant (Cordyline fruticosa), an evergreen shrub native to China and the Pacific islands.

TI³

noun TIs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of time interval
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of targeted individual (“a victim of gangstalking”).
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of tonic immobility
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of translation and interpreting

    Similar: T&I

  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of therapeutic index
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of training instructor

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Thursday Island
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Texas Instruments
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Treasure Island (Hotel and Casino).
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Transparency International

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: te, si, titanium, cordyline terminalis, bish, nb, shang, hoang, hwang, chus, fwm, maman, pings, b, h, leading tone

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Chicago

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@misc{ti_2026,
  title = {ti},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ti},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}