Tiare

See also: tiare

English

Etymology

From Tahitian Tiare, from tiare, a small white gardenia (Gardenia tahitiensis ), the national flower of Tahiti.

Proper noun

Tiare

1. A female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     Tiare — her father had called her by the name of the white, scented flower which, they tell you, if you have once smelt, will always draw you back to Tahiti in the end, however far you may have roamed — Tiare remembered Strickland very well.

Anagrams

• Artie, irate, raite, retia, terai

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tiˈaː.reː/, [t̪iˈäːreː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡siˈa.re/, [t̪͡s̪iˈäːre]

Proper noun

Tiārē f sg (genitive Tiārēs); first declension

1. A town in Mysia, mentioned by Pliny

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Tiārē
genitive	Tiārēs
dative	Tiārae
accusative	Tiārēn
ablative	Tiārē
vocative	Tiārē
locative	Tiārae

Derived terms

• Tiārēnus

References

• Tiare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Thiare

Proper noun

Tiare ?

1. a female given name

Usage notes

• Tiare was the 77th and Thiare the 74th most common name for girls born in Chile in 2005.

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