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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].
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title (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
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.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"to furnish with a title," early 14c., from title (n.). Related: Titled; titling.