Titian

//ˈtɪʃən// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold, especially in reference to hair.
  2. 2
    Of or relating to Titus Tatius, a king of the Sabines according to the Roman foundation myth.

    "Upon his return from Africa, he was honoured with the triumphal ornaments, and admitted among the Titian prieſts, and the prieſts of Auguſtus."

  3. 3
    Of or relating to the Roman emperor Titus (r. 79–81 AD).

    "On the Titian arch it is sculptured, but remains now in only a mutilated state; […]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Latin, equivalent to Italian Tiziano, notably used in reference to; various Christian saints
  2. 2
    A male given name from Latin, equivalent to Italian Tiziano, notably used in reference to; Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 1576), an Italian Renaissance painter.

    "There are no evidences in these days of Michelangelos and Titians, who at the age of eighty or ninety could turn out stronger work than our people of thirty and forty today! Nowhere else in the world is there any such evidence. But there is a sympathy, a tenderness of understanding in these modern painters which is as typical of this age, as the titanic :power of the Tintorettos and Titians."

Noun
  1. 1
    A bright auburn colour, tinted with gold. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

Named after Titian (Italian Tiziano), the Italian painter who made frequent use of this colour.

Etymology 2

Named after Titian (Italian Tiziano), the Italian painter who made frequent use of this colour.

Etymology 3

From Latin Titiānus (“of or relating to Titus; a male given name”), from Titus + -iānus. By surface analysis, Titus + -ian.

Etymology 4

From Latin Titiānus (“of or relating to Titus; a male given name”), from Titus + -iānus. By surface analysis, Titus + -ian.

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