tittle – English noun declension

English noun forms of tittle

Noun: tittle
Singulartittle
Pluraltittles

Sample Sentences

  • The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle. [1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks')]
  • The words "jot" and "tittle" in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation. [1965, P. A. Marijnen, The Encyclopedia of the Bible:]
  • (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of "er" (er) "tittles") [1987, Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance, page xii]
  • A tittle is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two tittles. Maybe it's a jot and a tittle side by side. [2008, Roy Blount, Alphabet juice: the energies, gists, and spirits of letters:]
  • I am living fast to see the time when a book that misses its tide shall be neglected, as the moon by day, or like mackerel a week after the season. No man has more nicely observed our climate than the bookseller who bought the copy of this work; he knows to a tittle what subjects will best go off in a dry year, and which it is proper to expose foremost when the weather-glass is fallen to much rain. [1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub:]

Etymology

From Middle English tytle, titel, titele, from Anglo-Norman titil, titule and Medieval Latin titulus (“small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”), from Latin titulus (“title”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, title, titlo, and titulus. See: Middle English Nouns 'tytle', Latin Nouns 'titulus'.