title: [13] Title comes via Old French title from Latin titulus ‘inscription on a tomb or altar, label, title’. Other contributions made by the Latin word to English include entitle [14], tilde [19], tittle [14], and titular [18]. => entitle, tilde, tittle, titular
title (n.)
c. 1300, "inscription, heading," from Old French title "title or chapter of a book; position; legal permit" (12c., Modern French titre, by dissimilation), and in part from Old English titul, both from Latin titulus "inscription, label, ticket, placard, heading; honorable appellation, title of honor," of unknown origin. Meaning "name of a book, play, etc." first recorded mid-14c. The sense of "name showing a person's rank" in English is first attested 1580s. Sports championship sense attested from 1913 (originally in lawn tennis), hence titlist (1913).
title (v.)
"to furnish with a title," early 14c., from title (n.). Related: Titled; titling.
雙語例句
1. Its new title was meant to give the party greater public appeal.
新的黨名意在使該黨對公眾具有更強的吸引力。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The heavyweight champion will be given a shot at Holyfield's world title.
這名重量級拳擊冠軍將嘗試挑戰霍利菲爾德的世界冠軍頭銜。
來自柯林斯例句
3. They wanted me to change the title to something less gratuitously offensive.
他們希望我將題目修改一下，以免顯得太過冒犯。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The title track is a pointed meditation on a continent gone wrong.
主打歌是對一個誤入歧途的大陸的深刻沉思。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Of course, nothing is going to eclipse winning the Olympic title.