titan
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Titan.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: tīʹtən, IPA(key): /ˈtaɪtən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪtən
- Homophones: tighten, Titan
- Rhymes: -aɪtɪn
Noun
[edit]titan (plural titans)
- Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:
- The battle of the titans at the bridal door explodes into the marketplace; and wall and doorpost shatter as they fight with the fury of bulls.
- 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
- In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.
- 2022 April 5, Elizabeth Wetmore, “How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Whitney, mother of Xavier, is a real estate titan who, along with her British husband, has found her niche selling luxurious underground bunkers to wealthy clients looking for a safe space to hunker down in the event of a climate apocalypse.
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from titan (noun)
Translations
[edit]something or someone large in stature, greatness or godliness
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Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Chemical element | |
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Ti | |
Previous: skandium (Ca) | |
Next: vanad (V) |
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]titan m inan
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “titan”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “titan”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ti.tɑ̃/
Audio (Switzerland): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑ̃
- Hyphenation: ti‧tan
Noun
[edit]titan m (plural titans)
Further reading
[edit]- “titan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Miskito
[edit]Noun
[edit]titan
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]titan n (definite singular titanet) (uncountable)
References
[edit]“titan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]titan n (definite singular titanet) (uncountable)
- titanium (as above)
References
[edit]- “titan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Chemical element | |
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Ti | |
Previous: scandiu (Sc) | |
Next: vanadiu (V) |
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]titan n (uncountable)
- titanium (chemical element)
Declension
[edit]singular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | titan | titanul |
genitive-dative | titan | titanului |
vocative | titanule |
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]titan m (plural titani)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | titan | titanul | titani | titanii | |
genitive-dative | titan | titanului | titani | titanilor | |
vocative | titanule | titanilor |
References
[edit]- titan in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Slovene
[edit]Chemical element | |
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Ti | |
Previous: skándij (Sc) | |
Next: vanádij (V) |
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]titȃn m inan
Inflection
[edit]Masculine inan., hard o-stem | ||
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nominative | titán | |
genitive | titána | |
singular | ||
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
titán | |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
titána | |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
titánu | |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
titán | |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
titánu | |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
titánom |
Further reading
[edit]- “titan”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
Swedish
[edit]Chemical element | |
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Ti | |
Previous: skandium (Sc) | |
Next: vanadin (V) |
Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Ancient Greek Τιτάν (Titán).
Noun
[edit]titan c
- (mythology) Titan; giant god
- a titan, a giant, a great or important person
- (specifically) a nickname for August Strindberg
Declension
[edit]Declension of titan
Etymology 2
[edit]German Titan (or Latin titanium), named by Martin Heinrich Klaproth after the Greek mythological Titans (as Etymology 1).
Noun
[edit]titan n
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | titan | titans |
definite | titanet | titanets | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
References
[edit]- titan in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- titan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- titan in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- Svensk MeSH
Anagrams
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Chemical element | |
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Ti | |
Previous: skandiyum (Li) | |
Next: vanadyum (V) |
Alternative forms
[edit]- (nonstandard) titanyum
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]titan (definite accusative titanı, plural titanlar)
- titanium (chemical element)
Declension
[edit]Inflection | ||
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Nominative | titan | |
Definite accusative | titanı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | titan | titanlar |
Definite accusative | titanı | titanları |
Dative | titana | titanlara |
Locative | titanda | titanlarda |
Ablative | titandan | titanlardan |
Genitive | titanın | titanların |
Synonyms
[edit]Vietnamese
[edit]Chemical element | |
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Ti | |
Previous: scanđi (Sc) | |
Next: vanađi (V) |
Etymology
[edit]From French titane, from German Titan.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ti˧˧ taːn˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tɪj˧˧ taːn˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [tɪj˧˧ taːn˧˧]
- Phonetic spelling: ti tań
Noun
[edit]titan
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