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tityre-tu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tityre--tu
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of a gang of criminal youths that originated in the early 1620s.

Etymology

An allusion to the first line in Virgil's First Eclogue: "Tityre tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi" ("Tityrus, thou reclining beneath the shelter of the spreading beech tree").

Inflected Forms

Tityre-tus (plural)

Questions

What does tityre-tu mean?
A member of a gang of criminal youths that originated in the early 1620s.
Where does tityre-tu come from?
An allusion to the first line in Virgil's First Eclogue: "Tityre tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi" ("Tityrus, thou reclining beneath the shelter of the spreading beech tree").

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