Tiro

See also: tiro, tīro, tirò, and tiró

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Tyrus (Tyre), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician [Term?]; see Tyre for more information.

Proper noun

Tiro m

  1. Tyre (an ancient city-state in Phoenicia)
  2. Tyre (a port city, the capital of Tyre district, Lebanon)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Probably use as a proper name of the common noun tīrō (new recruit”, “novice”, “young man).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tīrō m sg (genitive Tīrōnis); third declension

  1. A masculine cognomen — famously held by:
    1. Marcus Tullius Tiro (103–4 BC), freedman of and secretary to M. Tullius Cicero, and inventor of the Tironian notes

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Tīrō
Genitive Tīrōnis
Dative Tīrōnī
Accusative Tīrōnem
Ablative Tīrōne
Vocative Tīrō

Derived terms

References

  • Tīro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 2 Tīro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.:1,578/1
  • Tīrō²” on page 1,943/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin Tyrus (Tyre), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician [Term?]; see Tyre for more information.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾo/

  • Homophone: tiro
  • Hyphenation: Ti‧ro

Proper noun

Tiro f

  1. Tyre (an ancient city-state in Phoenicia)
  2. Tyre (a port city, the capital of Tyre district, Lebanon)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Tyrus (Tyre), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician [Term?]; see Tyre for more information.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtiɾo/ [ˈt̪i.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -iɾo
  • Syllabification: Ti‧ro

Proper noun

Tiro f

  1. Tyre (an ancient city-state in Phoenicia)
  2. Tyre (a port city, the capital of Tyre district, Lebanon)

Derived terms

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