# tilde
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of titer/titre, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus. Compare Portuguese til.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɪldə/, /ˈtɪldi/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪldə

### Noun

tilde (plural tildes)
* A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
** In Spanish, ⟨ñ⟩ is a palatalized ⟨n⟩, for example in ⟨cañón⟩.
** In Portuguese, ⟨ã⟩ and ⟨õ⟩ are nasalized vowels, for example in ⟨canção⟩.
*** 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 162:The tilde was used similarly in Portuguese on vowels to show that the letter bearing the tilde should be pronounced nasally.
** Another name for the Vietnamese tone mark dấu ngã, which is placed above a vowel to indicate a creaky rising tone (thanh ngã).
** Another name for apex, a curved diacritic used in the 17th century to mark final nasalization in the early Vietnamese alphabet. It was an adoption of the Portuguese tilde.
* A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
** 1992, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style:swung dash A stock keyboard character, used in mathematics as the sign of similarity (a ~ b) and in lexicography as a sign of repetition. The same sign has been used in symbolic logic to indicate negation, but to avoid confusion, the angular negation symbol (¬) is preferred. Not to be confused with the tilde.
** The character encoded as decimal 126 in the 1967 ASCII character set, and later in the 1992 Unicode character set.
** A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number). This use is common in Asia, where the symbol in this case is also called a wave dash.
** In lexicography, the ⟨~⟩ symbol is used used to indicate the repetition of the topical word or item. In this case, the symbol is also called a swung dash.
** May be used to represent approximation, in English prose and in mathematics. For example, “My dog weighs ~30 pounds.”
** (logic) An alternate form of the logical negation operator, which is usually written as ¬.

#### Historical notes

In reference works from the 1950's and earlier (i.e., pre-ASCII), the second meaning of the word “tilde” is not attested. For example, in The Oxford English Dictionary (1933) and Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary (1956), only the meaning of “tilde” as a diacritic is attested.
In the 1967 ASCII standard, the Tilde character was specified to look like a free-floating tilde diacritic (˜), and was intended to be used as a diacritic, by printing it over letters (using overprinting on a paper based computer terminal). In later years, the character was repurposed by users to serve as the symbol ⟨~⟩, and many fonts were changed to match this new de-facto definition. Hence, the word “tilde” entered English as a name for the ⟨~⟩ symbol.

#### Derived terms

* middle tilde
* overtilde
* undertilde
* zilde

#### Translations

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#### See also

* ASCII
* hyphen
* swung dash – Specific type of tilde, positioned in middle height of line.
* apex – visually similar diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that is often confused with the tilde

### Anagrams

* lited, tiled

## Asturian
### Noun

tilde f (plural tildes)
* (orthography) accent

#### Synonyms

* acentu

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

tilde
* locative singular of til

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

tilde
* inflection of tillen:
** singular past indicative
** (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

### Anagrams

* leidt

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Spanish tilde.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtilde/, [ˈt̪ilde̞]
* Rhymes: -ilde
* Hyphenation: til‧de

### Noun

tilde
* tilde

#### Declension

Possessive forms of tilde (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tildeni
tildeni
accusative
nom.
tildeni
tildeni
gen.
tildeni
genitive
tildeni
tildejeni tildeini $^{rare}$
partitive
tildeäni
tildejäni
inessive
tildessäni
tildeissäni
elative
tildestäni
tildeistäni
illative
tildeeni
tildeihini
adessive
tildelläni
tildeilläni
ablative
tildeltäni
tildeiltäni
allative
tildelleni
tildeilleni
essive
tildenäni
tildeinäni
translative
tildekseni
tildeikseni
abessive
tildettäni
tildeittäni
instructive
comitative
—tildeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tildesi
tildesi
accusative
nom.
tildesi
tildesi
gen.
tildesi
genitive
tildesi
tildejesi tildeisi $^{rare}$
partitive
tildeäsi
tildejäsi
inessive
tildessäsi
tildeissäsi
elative
tildestäsi
tildeistäsi
illative
tildeesi
tildeihisi
adessive
tildelläsi
tildeilläsi
ablative
tildeltäsi
tildeiltäsi
allative
tildellesi
tildeillesi
essive
tildenäsi
tildeinäsi
translative
tildeksesi
tildeiksesi
abessive
tildettäsi
tildeittäsi
instructive
comitative
—tildeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tildemme
tildemme
accusative
nom.
tildemme
tildemme
gen.
tildemme
genitive
tildemme
tildejemme tildeimme $^{rare}$
partitive
tildeämme
tildejämme
inessive
tildessämme
tildeissämme
elative
tildestämme
tildeistämme
illative
tildeemme
tildeihimme
adessive
tildellämme
tildeillämme
ablative
tildeltämme
tildeiltämme
allative
tildellemme
tildeillemme
essive
tildenämme
tildeinämme
translative
tildeksemme
tildeiksemme
abessive
tildettämme
tildeittämme
instructive
comitative
—tildeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tildenne
tildenne
accusative
nom.
tildenne
tildenne
gen.
tildenne
genitive
tildenne
tildejenne tildeinne $^{rare}$
partitive
tildeänne
tildejänne
inessive
tildessänne
tildeissänne
elative
tildestänne
tildeistänne
illative
tildeenne
tildeihinne
adessive
tildellänne
tildeillänne
ablative
tildeltänne
tildeiltänne
allative
tildellenne
tildeillenne
essive
tildenänne
tildeinänne
translative
tildeksenne
tildeiksenne
abessive
tildettänne
tildeittänne
instructive
comitative
—tildeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tildensä
tildensä
accusative
nom.
tildensä
tildensä
gen.
tildensä
genitive
tildensä
tildejensä tildeinsä $^{rare}$
partitive
tildeään tildeänsä
tildejään tildejänsä
inessive
tildessään tildessänsä
tildeissään tildeissänsä
elative
tildestään tildestänsä
tildeistään tildeistänsä
illative
tildeensä
tildeihinsä
adessive
tildellään tildellänsä
tildeillään tildeillänsä
ablative
tildeltään tildeltänsä
tildeiltään tildeiltänsä
allative
tildelleen tildellensä
tildeilleen tildeillensä
essive
tildenään tildenänsä
tildeinään tildeinänsä
translative
tildekseen tildeksensä
tildeikseen tildeiksensä
abessive
tildettään tildettänsä
tildeittään tildeittänsä
instructive
comitative
—tildeineen tildeinensä :

#### Synonyms

* aaltoviiva

### Further reading

* “tilde”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tild/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tilde m (plural tildes)
* tilde

### Further reading

* “tilde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* délit, ledit

## Interlingua
### Noun

tilde
* tilde

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtil.de/
* Rhymes: -ilde
* Hyphenation: tìl‧de

### Noun

tilde m or f (plural tildi)
* tilde (all senses)
* (typography) tilde, squiggle

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtilde/ [ˈt̪il̪.d̪e]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ilde
* Syllabification: til‧de

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from tildar or from Latin titulus, possibly through an Old Catalan or Old Provençal intermediate (accounting for the final -e instead of -o).

#### Noun

tilde f or (less commonly) m (plural tildes)
* accent mark, i.e. acute accent
    Synonym: acento ortográfico
* tilde
    Synonym: virgulilla
* criticism, censure

##### Usage notes

* In Spanish, the term tilde refers to a diacritic in general (including the tilde on top of ñ) but it is primarily used to designate the acute accent, as in á. The term virgulilla is used to specifically refer to the tilde on top of ñ.

##### Derived terms

* atildar

##### Descendants

* → English: tilde
* → Japanese: チルダ (chiruda)
* → Polish: tylda
* → Russian: ти́льда (tílʹda)
* → Serbo-Croatian: ти̑лда / tȋlda
* → Turkish: tilde

##### See also

* acento diacrítico, when used to distinguish “el” from “él”, for instance

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tilde
* inflection of tildar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tilde”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “tilde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tilde, with semantic loan from English tilde.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈtilde/ [ˈt̪il.d̪ɛ]
* Rhymes: -ilde
* Syllabification: til‧de

### Noun

tilde (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜎ᜔ᜇᜒ)
* tilde
* accent mark
    Synonym: tuldik

### Further reading

* “tilde”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “tilde”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tilde.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tilde]

### Noun

tilde (definite accusative tildeyi, plural tildeler)
* tilde