Standard Lemma guide

tittle

name · noun · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK, US: /ˈtɪt.əl/
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: T IH1 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: media, publishing, typography

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To chatter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Scotland

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount

History

Etymology

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.

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”).

Across languages

Translations

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Aghwan: 𐔺𐕞𐕡 (yüw) — a small amount
  • Armenian: հատիկ (hatik) — a small amount
  • Armenian: փշուր (pʻšur) — a small amount
  • Bulgarian: частица (častica) — a small amount
  • Bulgarian: йота (jota) — a small amount
  • Czech: troška — a small amount
  • Dutch: spatje — a small amount
  • Finnish: hiukkanen — a small amount
  • Hungarian: parány — a small amount
  • Hungarian: darabka — a small amount
  • Hungarian: szemernyi — a small amount
  • Hungarian: hajszálnyi — a small amount
  • Ido: iota — a small amount
  • Italian: punto — a small amount
  • Russian: ка́пелька (kápelʹka) — a small amount
  • Russian: чу́точка (čútočka) — a small amount
  • Scottish Gaelic: bìdeag — a small amount
  • Slovak: troška — a small amount
  • Ottoman Turkish: پارچه (parça) — a small amount
  • Ottoman Turkish: آوج (avuc) — a small amount
  • Bulgarian: точка (točka) — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Czech: tečka — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Danish: tøddel — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Dutch: tittel — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Finnish: piste — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • French: point — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • German: Punkt — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Gothic: 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐍄𐍃 (writs) — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Hungarian: pont — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Italian: puntino — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Portuguese: pingo — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Russian: то́чка (tóčka) — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Scottish Gaelic: punc — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Slovak: bodka na i — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''
  • Spanish: punto — in particular: dot on ''i'' and ''j''