Tiro

Etymology

From Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician; see Tyre for more information.

Proper noun

Tiro m

1. Tyre (city)

Etymology

Probably use as a proper name of the common noun tīrō (“new recruit”, “novice”, “young man”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.roː/
• Homophone: tīrō

Proper noun

Tīrō m (genitive Tīrōnis); third declension

1. A masculine cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Marcus Tullius Tiro (103–4 BC), freedman of and secretary to M. Tullius Cicero, and inventor of the Tironian notes

References

• Tīro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2 Tīro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,578/1”
• “Tīrō²” on page 1,943/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

• Marcus Tullius Tiro on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

Alternative forms

• Tyro (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros), from Phoenician; see Tyre for more information.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾo/
• Homophone: tiro

Proper noun

Tiro f

1. Tyre (an ancient city-state in Phoenicia)

Etymology

From Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician; see Tyre for more information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈti.ɾo̞]

Proper noun

Tiro f

1. Tyre (a city in Lebanon)