tiara
English

The Duchess of Angoulême's emerald-and-diamond tiara, made in 1820 and currently in the Louvre
Etymology
Via Italian, via Latin from Ancient Greek (Ionic) τιήρης (tiḗrēs), of unknown ultimate origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiˈɑːɹə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
tiara (plural tiaras)
- The papal crown.
- An ornamental coronet.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 200:
- I had scarcely taken my accustomed low seat at her side, when, opening a casket which stood on the table near her, she took out a diamond tiara, and, placing it in my hair, pointed to the glass. 'Ah, my child!' she exclaimed, 'you well become your future crown!' and, without waiting for my reply, she informed me that my father's negotiations for my marriage had been completely successful, and that the King of Poland had demanded my hand.
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Translations
papal crown
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ornamental coronet
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Dalmatian
Alternative forms
Finnish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtiɑrɑ/, [ˈt̪iɑ̝rɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iɑrɑ
- Syllabification(key): ti‧a‧ra
Declension
Inflection of tiara (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | tiara | tiarat | ||
genitive | tiaran | tiarojen | ||
partitive | tiaraa | tiaroja | ||
illative | tiaraan | tiaroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | tiara | tiarat | ||
accusative | nom. | tiara | tiarat | |
gen. | tiaran | |||
genitive | tiaran | tiarojen tiarainrare | ||
partitive | tiaraa | tiaroja | ||
inessive | tiarassa | tiaroissa | ||
elative | tiarasta | tiaroista | ||
illative | tiaraan | tiaroihin | ||
adessive | tiaralla | tiaroilla | ||
ablative | tiaralta | tiaroilta | ||
allative | tiaralle | tiaroille | ||
essive | tiarana | tiaroina | ||
translative | tiaraksi | tiaroiksi | ||
instructive | — | tiaroin | ||
abessive | tiaratta | tiaroitta | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tiāra from Ancient Greek (Ionic) τιήρης (tiḗrēs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtja.ra/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ara
- Hyphenation: tià‧ra
Further reading
- tiara in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- tiara in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- tiara in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- tiara in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- tiàra in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- tiara in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- tiara in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek (Ionic) τιάρα (tiára).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /tiˈaː.ra/, [t̪iˈäːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡siˈa.ra/, [t̪͡s̪iˈäːrä]
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | tiāra | tiārae |
Genitive | tiārae | tiārārum |
Dative | tiārae | tiārīs |
Accusative | tiāram | tiārās |
Ablative | tiārā | tiārīs |
Vocative | tiāra | tiārae |
References
- “tiara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tiara in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tiara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “tiara”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “tiara”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tiara in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “tiara”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Anagrams
Maori
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tiāra, from Ancient Greek τιάρα (tiára).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtja.ra/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ara
- Syllabification: tia‧ra
Noun
tiara f
- (countable) tiara (ornamental coronet)
- (countable, Roman Catholicism) tiara (papal crown)
- (metonymically, Roman Catholicism, uncountable) papacy (office of the pope)
- Synonyms: papiestwo, tron Piotrowy
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tiāra, from Ancient Greek τιάρα (tiára).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈa.ɾɐ/ [t͡ʃɪˈa.ɾɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈt͡ʃja.ɾɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈa.ɾa/ [t͡ʃɪˈa.ɾa], (faster pronunciation) /ˈt͡ʃja.ɾa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtja.ɾɐ/
- Rhymes: -aɾɐ
- Hyphenation: ti‧a‧ra
Noun
tiara f (plural tiaras)
Further reading
- “tiara” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “tiara” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “tiara” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “tiara” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “tiara” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “tiara” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romansch
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tiāra, from Ancient Greek τιάρα (tiára).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtjaɾa/ [ˈt̪ja.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -aɾa
- Syllabification: tia‧ra
Noun
tiara f (plural tiaras)
Further reading
- “tiara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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