tita

From Tagalog tita, from Spanish tita.

tita (plural titas)

1. (Philippines) an aunt; auntie
2. (Philippines, slang) a young adult woman exhibiting the stereotypical characteristics of a Filipina aunt

• (of a man): tito

Borrowed from Spanish tita, diminutive of tía (“aunt”).

• Hyphenation: ti‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈtita/

títa (masculine tito)

1. an aunt (the sister of either parent)

   Synonyms: tiya, inaon

From tit.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

tita f (plural tites)

1. turkey hen
2. (childish) penis

• titot

• “tita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tita”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tita” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tita” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Spanish tita, diminutive of tía (“aunt”), from Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).

• Hyphenation: ti‧ta

tita (masculine tito)

1. an aunt; the sister of either parent
2. a female cousin of either parent
3. an affectionate or honorific term for a woman of an older generation than oneself

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tita.

• iyaan, tiya

• IPA^(key): (Aosta)

tita (plural tite) (Valdôtain, Graphie BREL)

1. Alternative form of téta (“head”)

• tête in Patois VdA: Le site du Francoprovençal en Vallée d'Aoste – on patoisvda.org

From Sanskrit तिक्त (tikta). Cognate with Bengali তিতা (tita).

tita

1. bitter

tita

1. Obsolete form of atâta.

• tita in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈtita/
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: ti‧ta

tita f (plural titas)

1. theta; the Greek letter Θ, θ

   Synonyms: zeta, theta

From teta ("grandma").

tita f (plural titas, masculine tito, masculine plural titos)

1. (colloquial, endearing, Mexico) grandma

From tía +‎ -ita.

tita f (plural titas, masculine tito, masculine plural titos)

1. (Philippines) aunt
2. (colloquial, Spain) auntie

• “tito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

tita c

1. a tit in the Poecile genus

• entita
• talltita
• sikangtita
• karolinatita
• amerikansk talltita
• bergtita
• mexikansk tita

• tita in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tita in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tita in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from Spanish tita, from tía (“aunt”) + -ita (“diminutive suffix”), from Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtita/
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: ti‧ta

tita (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜆ)

1. feminine of tito: aunt; auntie

   Synonyms: tiya, tiyang, tiyahin, ale, inain, (slang) nana, tsang

2. (slang) young adult woman exhibiting the stereotypical characteristics of a Filipino aunt

From Indonesian titah (“word, command”).

• IPA^(key):

tita

1. (intransitive) to speak
2. (intransitive) to instruct

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh