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[QUOTE="Delmar, post: 1426102, member: 3944"]
[SIZE=3][B]"Tyus is a variation of the name [URL='http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Titus']Titus[/URL] (English, French, German, and Romanian)."[/B]
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[B]Etymology of the name Titus[/B][/SIZE]
The name Titus was one of the most common first names in the first century A.D. It comes from deep antiquity and the technical etymology is obscure. What it actually meant is subsequently also unclear, but depending on creativity and leanings, it may have remembered some [URL='http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Latin.html']Latin[/URL] speakers of:
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[*]The mythical Titans, the giant [I]ur[/I]-gods of the Greeks and Romans.
[*]The noun [I]titillus[/I], meaning a tickle, from the verb [I]titillo[/I], meaning to tickle.
[*]The noun [I]titio[/I], meaning firebrand.
[*]The noun [I]titulus[/I], meaning title, sign or inscription.
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Greek speakers may have associated our name to:
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[*]Again the Titans (Τιταν), or even Tityos (Τιτυος, [I]Tituos[/I], the guy whose liver the eagle kept eating.
[*]The noun τιτυσ ([I]titus[/I]), which is a rare form of τισις ([I]tisis[/I]), meaning penalty, retribution or vengeance.
[*]The noun τιτθος ([I]tithos[/I]), meaning breast.
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[SIZE=3][B]Titus meaning[/B][/SIZE]
It's pretty safe to say that there is no single, identifiable meaning to the name Titus in either the classical or the modern world.

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