# title
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English title, titel, from Old English titul (“title, heading, superscription”), from Latin titulus (“title, inscription”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, titlo, tittle, and titulus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaɪ.təl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪtəl
* Homophone: tidal (in accents with flapping)
* Hyphenation: ti‧tle

### Noun

title (plural titles)
* The name of a film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
* The name of a writing such as a book, which identifies it and usually describes its subject, with a short phrase that often summarizes its topic.
* (by extension) A publication.
    The retailer carries thousands of titles.
    Buyers of the new video game console can choose from three bundled titles.
* (by extension) A section or division of a writing, as of an act of law or a book.
    Title II of the USA PATRIOT Act
    I know the singer's name, but not the title of the song.
* An appellation given to a person or family to signify either veneration, official position, social rank, the possession of assets or properties, or a professional or academic qualification; a style. See also Category:Titles
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death With his former title greet Macbeth.
** 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
* (property law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
    a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title
* In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
* A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
* (chiefly in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
    The titles scrolled by too quickly to read.
* (sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
* (bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
** 2012 May 13, Phil McNulty, “Man City 3-2 QPR”, in BBC Sport:With some City fans already leaving the stadium in tears, Edin Dzeko equalised in the second of five minutes of stoppage time before Sergio Aguero scored the goal that won the title.
** 1997, David Kenneth Wiggins, Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America:Equally disadvantageous to Jackson was the fact that other than the Jacksonville Athletic Club and the National Sporting Club, virtually no organization was willing to sponsor a title fight between a black fighter and a white one.
* (law, formal) A long title.
* (law, informal) A short title.

#### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:title

#### Derived terms

* abstract of title
* after-acquired title
* allodial title
* bastard title
* catch title
* chain of title
* clear title
* cloud of title
* cloud on title
* collective title
* color of title
* courtesy title
* covenant of title
* end titles
* entitle
* half title
* half-title
* job title
* junk title
* long title
* native title
* paramount title
* protected title
* running title
* salvage title
* short title
* strata title
* subtitle
* supertitle
* surtitle
* temple title
* title bar
* title card
* title case
* title character
* title company
* title deed
* title defect
* title loan
* title page
* title paramount
* title plan
* title policy
* title role
* title track
* Torrens title
* warranty of title
* working title

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Wu: 抬頭 / 抬头 (⁶de-deu)
* → Japanese: タイトル (taitoru)
* → Korean: 타이틀 (taiteul)
* → Welsh: teitl

#### Translations

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### Verb

title (third-person singular simple present titles, present participle titling, simple past and past participle titled)
* (transitive) To assign a title to; to entitle.

#### Translations
## Chinese
### Etymology

From English title.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): tai$^1$ tou$^4$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: tai$^1$ tou$^4$
*** Yale: tāi tòuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tai$^1$ tou$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tei$^1$ tou$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰɐi̯⁵⁵ tʰou̯²¹/

### Noun

title
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) title; appellation; (especially) job title

### References

* English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

title
* inflection of titeln:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative