The story
- Latin · derived fromtitulus“superscript”
- Spanish · borrowed fromtilde
- English todaytilde
Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of titer/titre, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus. Compare Portuguese til.
Words from the same roots
Latintitulus all →
titletittlejot and tittletitulus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.