different between titular vs specious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French titulaire, from Latin titul?ris, from titulus (“title”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?tj?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?t??l?/

Adjective

titular (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, being, derived from, or having a title.
2. Existing in name only; nominal.
3. Named or referred to in the title.

Translations

Derived terms

• titularly

Noun

titular (plural titulars)

1. One who holds a title.
2. The person from whom a church takes its special name; distinguished from a patron, who must be canonized or an angel.

Translations

See also

• eponym
• eponymous

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ti.tu?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ti.tu?la?/
• Homophone: titulà

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin titul?ris.

Adjective

titular (masculine and feminine plural titulars)

1. titular

Noun

titular m (plural titulars)

1. titular

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin titul?re, present active infinitive of titul?.

Verb

titular (first-person singular present titulo, past participle titulat)

1. (transitive) to title, entitle

Conjugation

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From título +? -ar, or borrowed from Late Latin titul?ris.

Adjective

titular m or f (plural titulares, comparable)

1. titular, titled

Noun

titular m, f (plural titulares)

1. holder, bearer (of a title, etc.)
2. (sports) starter (a player who plays from the start a game)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin titul?re, present active infinitive of titul?.

Verb

titular (first-person singular present indicative titulo, past participle titulado)

1. to title
2. (chemistry) to titrate
3. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of titular
4. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of titular
5. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of titular
6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of titular

Conjugation

Derived terms

• titulação

Further reading

• “titular” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “titular” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “titular” in Dicionário inFormal.

Romanian

Etymology

From French titulaire.

Noun

titular m (plural titulari)

1. holder

Declension

Spanish

Etymology 1

From título +? -ar, or borrowed from Late Latin titul?ris.

Adjective

titular (plural titulares)

1. titular

Noun

titular m (plural titulares)

1. headline

Noun

titular m or f (plural titulares)

1. holder (of a position)
2. owner (of a position)
3. (sports) starter (a player who plays from the start a game)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin titul?re, present active infinitive of titul?. Doublet of tildar.

Verb

titular (first-person singular present titulo, first-person singular preterite titulé, past participle titulado)

1. (transitive) to entitle
2. (transitive) to title
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Conjugation

Derived terms

• autotitularse

Related terms

• intitular

Further reading

• “titular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin speci?sus (“good-looking”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?spi???s/
• Rhymes: -i???s

Adjective

specious (comparative more specious, superlative most specious)

1. Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.

   Synonyms: fallacious, insincere

   • 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes:

     now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.
2. Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
   • 1829, William Phelan, Mortimer O'Sullivan, Ireland: A digest taken before Select Committees of the two Houses of Parliament, appointed to inquire into the State of Ireland, 1824—25, in The Christian Review and Clerical Magazine, Volume III, page 472,

     But a third cause of the delusion is, that the Church of Rome has become more specious and deceitful than before the Reformation.

3. Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.

   Synonyms: meretricious, pretextual

   • 1760, William Warburton, The Lord Bishop of Gloucester's Sermon Preached Before the Right Honourable the House of Lords, January 30, 1760, page 19,

     And could any thing be more ?pecious, or more equal, than that fair di?tribution of power and profit, which men called the NEW MODEL?

   • 1788, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 59

     This argument, though specious, will not, upon examination, be found solid.

4. (obsolete) Beautiful, pleasing to look at.

Derived terms

• specious present
• specious tiger (Asota speciosa, a species of moth)

Related terms

• speciosity
• speciously
• speciousness

Translations

See also

• spurious

Anagrams

• cosies up