tiara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiˈɑːɹə/
ipa: /tiˈɑɹə/
ipa: /tiˈæɹə/
Forms: form: tiaras
form: tiarae
form: tiaræ
Etymology: From Latin tiāra, from Ancient Greek τιάρα (tiára), of unknown ultimate origin.
Senses: glosses: The three-tiered papal crown.
examples: text: I had scarcely taken my accustomed low seat at her side, when, opening a casket which stood on the table near her, she took out a diamond tiara, and, placing it in my hair, pointed to the glass. 'Ah, my child!' she exclaimed, 'you well become your future crown!' and, without waiting for my reply, she informed me that my father's negotiations for my marriage had been completely successful, and that the King of Poland had demanded my hand.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 200:
text: [T]heir tiaræ are like those of the magi; […]
ref: 1842, Joseph Strutt, J[ames] R[obinson] Planché, “[The Introduction.] The Ancient Habits of the Assyrians, of the Persians, of the Medes, and of Other Asiatic Nations.”, in A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time: […], volume I, London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], page lxiv:
text: The Bactrians wore tiaræ like the Persians, with bamboo bows, and short javelins.
ref: 1848, [James Talboys Wheeler], An Analysis and Summary of Herodotus. […], Oxford, Oxon: J. L. Wheeler, J. Abrams, C. Richards, J. Thornton. […], page 165:
text: For the latter bears a pair of winged bulls with tiaræ and feathered necks, after the so much admired Assyrian prototype; […]
ref: 1892, Morton W[illiam] Easton, Observations on the Platform at Persepolis (Publications of the University of Pennsylvania: Series in Philology Literature and Archæology; volume II, number 2), Boston, Mass.: Ginn & Company; Halle: Max Niemeyer, page 17:
text: Shells may also be observed in slightly recessed niches, where pediments are replaced with tiarae and flapping infulae, the jambs of which are not flanked with small columns but with colossal keys with candelabra occupying the space.
ref: 1949, Armando Schiavo, editor, Michelangelo Architetto: Michaelangelo as an Architect, Rome: La Libreria dello Stato:
text: During the Bronze Age in the Near East kings and gods often wore tiarae and helmets provided with horns […]
ref: 1970, Γεώργιος Στυλιανός Κορρές [Geórgios Stylianós Korrés], Τα μετά κεφαλών κριών κράνη: η κεφαλή κριού ως έμβλημα αρχής [Ta metá kefalón krión kráni: i kefalí krioú os émvlima archís], Athens, →OCLC, page 273:
roman: Geórgios Stylianós Korrés
text: The images of these divinities, including that of Ishtar, were richly dressed and decorated with tiarae (for references see Romano 1988, 133). […] A comparison may also be made with the terracotta statuettes of the daedalic style from Gortyn in Crete, where richly decorated garments as well as high tiarae are worn by female figures (e.g. Rizza and Scrinari 1968, pls XV: 91, XVII: 101).
ref: 1997, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, pages 200–201:
text: In the centre of the front side, two male standing figures are shown, dressed in tunicae with long sleeves, wearing tiarae and holding two double headed axes and stylized palm branches in their hands.
ref: 2021, Nadežda Gavrilović Vitas, “The Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus in the Central Balkans”, in Ex Asia et Syria: Oriental Religions in the Roman Central Balkans (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology; 78), Oxford, Oxon: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, section I (Asia Minor Religions and Cults), footnote 1025, page 108, column 2:
text: Next, I am DJing back-to-back with Diana, Princess of Wales. “The crowd’s ready for the drop,” she shouts in my ear, holding a headphone to her tiara.
ref: 2025 October 17, Niamh Rowe, “‘Legacies condensed to AI slop’: OpenAI Sora videos of the dead raise alarm with legal experts”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An ornamental coronet.
Derived terms: betiaraed
Tiara
tiaraed
tiaraless
tiaralike