tittle
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tittle¹
- /ˈtɪt.əl/ UK, US
Where it comes from
From Middle English tytle, titel, titele, from Anglo-Norman titil, titule and Medieval Latin titulus (“small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”), from Latin titulus (“title”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, title, titlo, and titulus.
noun tittles
- Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j. The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.
- A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck. I am living fast to see the time when a book that misses its tide shall be neglected, as the moon by day, or like mackerel a week after the season. No man has more nicely observed our climate than the bookseller who bought the copy of this work; he knows to a tittle what subjects will best go off in
tittle²
- /ˈtɪt.əl/ UK, US
Where it comes from
From Middle English titillen, tytyllen, perhaps variants of Middle English tutelen (“to whisper, chatter”), from tutel (“mouth”), from Old English *tūtel, *tȳtel, related to Old Frisian tūte (“mouth”). Compare Middle English touten (“to jut out, project, protrude”), Middle English toute (“projection, mound, hill”), Middle Dutch tûte (whence modern Dutch tuit (“spout, nozzle, nose, point, peak, summit”)), Old Norse túta (“a teat-like prominence”), Danish tude (“spout”).
verb tittles · tittling · tittled
- To chatter.
Tittle³
proper noun
- A surname.
Translations
Talk about this word "tittle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tittle. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tittle. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tittle "tittle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tittle.Cite this
@misc{tittle_2026,
title = {tittle},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tittle},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
