Word Origin Summary

Title is attested in Middle English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• タイトル

  Japanese · borrowed from

• teitl

  Welsh · borrowed from

• jot and tittle

  English · inherited from

• title

  English · inherited from

• 타이틀

  Korean · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root