English
Titus
Titus comes from Latin Titus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CETitus
- Englishearliest quotation 1611same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CETitus
- Englishearliest quotation 1611same form
Earliest quotation: 1611, The Holy Bible, London: […] Robert Barker: “I desired Titus, and with him I sent a…”
The story
Borrowed from Latin Titus, a Roman and Sabine praenomen meaning either "honorable" or "strong; of the giants".
Every English word from Latin Titus
Today it means
name The seventeenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to Titus.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin Titus / Titus