Titian

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Titian (comparative more Titian, superlative most Titian)

1. Of or relating to Titus Tatius, a king of the Sabines according to the Roman foundation myth.
   • 1748, An Universal History from the Earliest Account of Time‎^[1], volume 14, page 476:

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

2. Of or relating to the Roman emperor Titus (r. 79–81 AD).
   • 1861, The People's Dictionary of the Bible‎^[2], volume 1, page 267:

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

Titian (plural Titians)

1. A male given name from Latin, equivalent to Italian Tiziano, notably used in reference to
   1. various Christian saints
   3. Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 1576), an Italian Renaissance painter.
      • 1926 October 11, C. F. B., “Old and New Pictures in Venice”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic edition, volume XVIII, number 268, Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

        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.

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