# tita
## English
### Etymology

From Tagalog tita, from Spanish tita.

### Noun

tita (plural titas)
* (Philippines) an aunt; auntie
* (Philippines, slang) a young adult woman exhibiting the stereotypical characteristics of a Filipina aunt

#### Coordinate terms

* (of a man): tito

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tita, diminutive of tía (“aunt”).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ti‧ta
* IPA: /ˈtita/ [ˈti.ta]

### Noun

títa (masculine tito)
* an aunt (the sister of either parent)
    Synonyms: tiya, inaon

## Catalan
### Etymology

From tit.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈti.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈti.ta]

### Noun

tita f (plural tites)
* turkey hen
* (childish) penis

#### Derived terms

* titot

### Further reading

* “tita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “tita”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “tita” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “tita” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tita, diminutive of tía (“aunt”), from Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ti‧ta

### Noun

tita (masculine tito)
* an aunt; the sister of either parent
* a female cousin of either parent
* an affectionate or honorific term for a woman of an older generation than oneself

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tita.

#### Synonyms

* iyaan, tiya

## Franco-Provençal
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtita] (Aosta)

### Noun

tita (plural tite) (Valdôtain, Graphie BREL)
* Alternative form of téta (“head”)

### References

* tête in Patois VdA: Le site du Francoprovençal en Vallée d'Aoste – on patoisvda.org

## Rohingya
### Etymology

From Sanskrit तिक्त (tikta). Cognate with Bengali তিতা (tita).

### Adjective

tita
* bitter

## Romanian
### Interjection

tita
* Obsolete form of atâta.

### References

* tita in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtita/ [ˈt̪i.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ita
* Syllabification: ti‧ta

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tita f (plural titas)
* theta; the Greek letter Θ, θ
    Synonyms: zeta, theta

### Etymology 2

From teta ("grandma").

#### Noun

tita f (plural titas, masculine tito, masculine plural titos)
* (colloquial, endearing, Mexico) grandma

### Etymology 3

From tía +‎ -ita.

#### Noun

tita f (plural titas, masculine tito, masculine plural titos)
* (Philippines) aunt
* (colloquial, Spain) auntie

### Further reading

* “tito”, 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

## Swedish
### Noun

tita c
* a tit in the Poecile genus

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | tita | titas |
| singular | definite | titan | titans |
| plural | indefinite | titor | titors |
| plural | definite | titorna | titornas |

#### Derived terms

* entita
* talltita
* sikangtita
* karolinatita
* amerikansk talltita
* bergtita
* mexikansk tita

### References

* tita in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* tita in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* tita in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tita, from tía (“aunt”) + -ita (“diminutive suffix”), from Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈtita/ [ˈt̪iː.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ita
* Syllabification: ti‧ta

### Noun

tita (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜆ)
* feminine of tito: aunt; auntie
    Synonyms: tiya, tiyang, tiyahin, ale, inain, (slang) nana, tsang
* (slang) young adult woman exhibiting the stereotypical characteristics of a Filipino aunt

#### Derived terms

* plantita
* titahin

#### Related terms

* Tita

## Ternate
### Etymology

From Indonesian titah (“word, command”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈti.ta]

### Verb

tita
* (intransitive) to speak
* (intransitive) to instruct

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh