Titan

See also: titan, Títan, títan, Titán, and titán

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Τιτάν (Titán).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tīʹtən, IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪtən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪtən
• Homophones: tighten, titan
• Hyphenation: ti‧tan

Noun

Titan (plural Titans)

1. Any of the race of giant gods in Greek mythology that preceded and was overthrown by the Olympian gods.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:Titan

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Titanean
• Titaness
• Titanian

• titanic
• titanium

Translations

mythological giant

• Arabic: تَايْتَان m (tāytān)
• Catalan: Tità m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 提坦 (Títǎn)

• Finnish: titaani (fi)
• French: Titan (fr) m
• Georgian: ტიტანი (ṭiṭani)
• German: Titan (de) m
• Greek: Τιτάνας (el) m (Titánas)

  Ancient: Τιτάν m (Titán)

• Hawaiian: Kaikana
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• Hungarian: titán (hu)
• Italian: Titano (it)
• Japanese: チタン (ja) (Chitan), ティーターン (Tītān)
• Korean: 티탄 (ko) (titan)
• Polish: tytan (pl) m
• Portuguese: titã (pt) m
• Russian: Тита́н (ru) m (Titán)
• Serbo-Croatian: титан m (titan)
• Spanish: Titán (es)
• Swahili: Titani
• Swedish: titan (sv) c

Proper noun

Titan

The moon Titan

2. (Greek mythology) Another name for Helios, a personification of the Sun.
3. (astronomy) The largest moon of the planet Saturn.

Translations

moon of Saturn

• Arabic: تَايْتَان m (tāytān)
• Asturian: Titán m
• Belarusian: Тыта́н m (Tytán)
• Bulgarian: Тита́н m (Titán)
• Catalan: Tità m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土衛六／土卫六 (zh) (Tǔwèiliù), 土卫六 (zh) (Tǔwèiliù), 泰坦 (zh) (Tàitǎn)

• Esperanto: Titano
• Finnish: Titan (fi)
• French: Titan (fr) m
• German: Titan (de) m
• Greek: Τιτάνας (el) m (Titánas)
• Hawaiian: Kaikana
• Hungarian: Titán (hu)
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• Italian: Titano (it) m
• Japanese: タイタン (ja) (Taitan), ティタン (Titan)
• Khmer: ទីតង់ (titngô)
• Korean: 타이탄 (taitan)
• Macedonian: Тита́н m (Titán)
• Mongolian: Титан (Titan)
• Polish: Tytan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Titã (pt) f
• Russian: Тита́н (ru) m (Titán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Титан m

  Roman: Titan m

• Spanish: Titán (es) m
• Swedish: Titan (sv) ?
• Ukrainian: Тита́н m (Tytán)

Anagrams

• 'taint, Nitta, Tanit, nitta, taint, tinta

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈtaːn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːn

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin Tītān, Tītānus, Ancient Greek Τιτάν (Titán).

Noun

Titan m (weak, genitive Titanen, plural Titanen)

1. (Greek mythology) Titan
2. (higher register) titan

Alternative forms

• Titane

Declension

Declension of Titan [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Titan	die	Titanen
genitive	eines	des	Titanen	der	Titanen
dative	einem	dem	Titanen	den	Titanen
accusative	einen	den	Titanen	die	Titanen

Derived terms

• titanisch

Proper noun

Titan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Titans or (only with an article) Titan)

1. (astronomy) Titan (one of Saturn's moons)

Declension

Declension of Titan [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Titan
genitive	eines	des	Titans, Titan1
dative	einem	dem	Titan
accusative	einen	den	Titan

¹Only with an article.

Etymology 2

Noun

Titan n (strong, genitive Titans, no plural)

1. titanium

Declension

Declension of Titan [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Titan
genitive	eines	des	Titans
dative	einem	dem	Titan
accusative	ein	das	Titan

Coordinate terms

• (chemical element): Previous: Scandium. Next: Vanadium

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Japanese

Romanization

Titan

1. Rōmaji transcription of ティタン

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Luxembourgish

Chemical element
Ti
Previous: Scandium (Sc)
Next: Vanadium (V)

Noun

Titan ? (uncountable)

1. titanium

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Swedish

Proper noun

Titan c (genitive Titans)

1. (astronomy) Titan, a moon of Saturn

Anagrams

• tinat