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.
例文
1. Its new title was meant to give the party greater public appeal.
新しい党名は、同党が公衆に対してより強い魅力を持つようにすることを意味している。
2.The heavyweight champion will be given a shot at Holyfield 's world title .
このヘビー級ボクシングチャンピオンはホリフィールドの世界チャンピオンタイトルに挑戦しようとする。
3.They wanted me to change the title to something less gratuitously offensive.
彼らは私があまりにも失礼に見えないようにテーマを修正してほしいと望んでいる。
4.The title track is a pointed meditation on a continent gone wrong.
表題曲は、誤った大陸への深い思いである。
5.Of course,nothing is going to eclipse winning the Olympic title .