titio Latin · revision 6191

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈtiː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈtit.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tītiō''' ''m'' (genitive tītiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It may be [[inh|itc-pro|*tī-ti-|t=heating]], from the root [[ine-pro|*teyh₁-|t=to become hot, melt]], as the LIV has it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Possible cognates are [[sga|tinaid|t=melts, disappears]], [[hit|zē-|t=to cook]] and [[non|þíðr|t=thawed]], though Kloekhorst takes the root's first sense as “to end, finish”.^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD compares [[grc|τιτώ|tr=titṓ|t=day]] and [[lt|tìtnagas|t=flint]], and Walde and Hofmann thought of a word from Asia Minor through Greek.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Varro, quoted by Nonius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a piece of burning wood, a firebrand, as in Celsus and Hyginus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis and Short quote an ancient remark that the common people call a half-burnt log taken from the hearth ''titiō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) A ''titiō'' was also a man's name.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Medieval Latin it was a burning log, also in figurative uses.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) It survives in almost every Romance language, in Romanian ''tăciune'', Italian ''tizzone'', French ''tison'' and Spanish ''tizón'', and also as a name for smut, a disease of grain.^(DÉRom)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of a firebrand.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1288 – Italian ''tizzone'' is recorded.^(DÉRom)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A piece of burning wood, [[m|en|firebrand]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[titiunculus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fax]]

+ * [[torris]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ It is distinct from the verb ''titiō'' “to twitter”, said of sparrows, recorded by Suetonius.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}