subtitle

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ title

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/

Noun

subtitle (plural subtitles)

1. (authorship) A heading below or after a title.
2. Textual versions of the dialog in films, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.
   • 1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:

     Careful viewers have long observed that in the movies, one can not only watch but read cigarettes like subtitles — translating the action on the screen into another language which the camera registers but rarely foregrounds, a part of the thickness of the medium which is almost never brought into focus. […] The cigarette in the scene serves as a subtext, a mute caption or subtitle, sometimes accompanying, sometimes contradicting or diverting the explicit premise of the action or the open meaning of signs.

Usage notes

In film and video, subtitles usually translate foreign-language dialogue, while captions transcribe or describe all significant dialogue and sound for viewers who cannot hear it.

Derived terms

• subtitled, subtitling

Related terms

• surtitle, surtitles, surtitled, surtitling

Translations

heading below a title

• Arabic: عُنْوَان فَرْعِيّ m (ʕunwān farʕiyy) (plural: عَنَاوِين فَرْعِيَّة m pl (ʕanāwīn farʕiyya))
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副標題／副标题 (zh) (fùbiāotí), 副标题 (zh) (fù biāotí)

• Czech: podtitul (cs) m
• Estonian: alapealkiri
• Finnish: alaotsikko (fi)
• French: sous-titre (fr) m
• Georgian: ქვესათაური (kvesatauri)
• German: Untertitel (de) m
• Greek: υπότιτλος (el) m (ypótitlos)
• Hebrew: כּוֹתֶרֶת מִשְׁנֶה f
• Hungarian: alcím (hu)
• Icelandic: undirtitill m, undirfyrirsögn f, aukafyrirsögn f
• Indonesian: judul bawah (id)
• Irish: fotheideal m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: sottotitolo (it) m
• Macedonian: поднаслов m (podnaslov)
• Malay: subtajuk
• Maori: kupu hauraro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: undertittel m

  Nynorsk: undertittel m

• Polish: podtytuł (pl) m
• Portuguese: subtítulo (pt) m
• Russian: подзаголо́вок (ru) (podzagolóvok)
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-thiotal m
• Spanish: subtítulo (es) m
• Swedish: undertitel (sv) c
• Ukrainian: підзаголо́вок m (pidzaholóvok)

textual versions of the dialog in films

• Arabic: تَرْجَمَة (ar) f (tarjama)

  Hijazi Arabic: تَرْجَمة f (tarjama)

• Armenian: ենթագիր (hy) (entʻagir)
• Belarusian: субці́тры m pl (subcítry), субты́тры m pl (subtýtry)
• Bulgarian: субти́три (bg) m pl (subtítri)
• Catalan: subtítol (ca) m, subtítols (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 字幕 (zi⁶ mok⁶)

  Mandarin: 字幕 (zh) (zìmù)

• Czech: titulky m pl
• Danish: undertekst c
• Dutch: ondertiteling (nl)
• Esperanto: subtitulo, subtituloj pl
• Finnish: tekstitys (fi)
• French: sous-titre (fr) m
• Georgian: სუბტიტრი (subṭiṭri)
• German: Untertitel (de) m
• Greek: υπότιτλοι (el) m pl (ypótitloi)
• Hebrew: כְּתוּבִית f
• Hindi: उपशीर्षक (hi) (upśīrṣak)
• Hungarian: felirat (hu)
• Icelandic: texti (is) m, þýðing (is) f, þýðingartexti m, kvikmyndatexti m
• Indonesian: teks (id), subjudul, subtitel
• Irish: fotheideal m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: sottotitolo (it) m
• Japanese: 字幕 (ja) (じまく, jimaku)
• Korean: 자막 (ko) (jamak) (字幕 (ko))
• Kurdish:
• Macedonian: титл m (titl), титлови pl (titlovi), превод m (prevod)
• Malay: sari kata
• Maori: kupu hauraro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: undertekst m or f

  Nynorsk: undertekst m or f

• Polish: napisy (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: legenda (pt) f
• Romanian: subtitlu (ro)
• Russian: субти́тр (ru) m (subtítr), (plural: субти́тры pl (subtítry))
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-thiotal m
• Serbo-Croatian: titlove
• Spanish: subtítulo (es) m, subtítulos (es) m pl
• Swedish: textremsa c, undertext (sv) c
• Tibetan: སྐད་ཆ་སྒྱུར་ཡིག (skad cha sgyur yig)
• Turkish: altyazı (tr)
• Ukrainian: субти́три pl (subtýtry)
• Vietnamese: phụ đề (vi)
• Yiddish: אונטערטיטלען n (untertitlen)

See also

• Subtitle (titling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Subtitle (captioning) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

subtitle (third-person singular simple present subtitl, present participle ing, simple past and past participle subtitled)

1. To create subtitles for the dialog in a film.

Translations

to create subtitles

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: otitulkovat
• Finnish: tekstittää (fi)
• French: sous-titrer (fr)
• Greek: υποτιτλίζω (el) (ypotitlízo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: fotheidealaigh
• Portuguese: legendar
• Spanish: subtitular (es)
• Swedish: texta (sv)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• blue tits, bluetits, builtest