tilia

From the genus name.

tilia (plural tilias)

1. Any tree of the linden genus Tilia.

• litai

Probably a borrowing from a Mediterranean substrate, found also in Ancient Greek πτελέα (pteléa, “elm”) and Old Armenian թեղի (tʻełi).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈti.li.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.li.a/,

tilia f (genitive tiliae); first declension

1. linden or lime tree
2. the inner bark of the linden or lime tree

First-declension noun.

• tiliāceus
• tiliāgineus
• tiliāris

• “tilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tilia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tilia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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-tilia (infinitive kutilia)

1. Applicative form of -tia: to put for, to employ for