1864, from Spanish, metathesis of Catalan title, from vernacular form of Medieval Latin titulus "stroke over an abridged word to indicate missing letters," a specialized sense of Latin titul [..]

A diacritic marking used in languages like Spanish and Portugeuse. It looks like this: ~, and the tilde appears over another letter.

A mark in the form of a horizontal inverted "s" (~) used as a diacritical mark over certain letters in the Spanish and Portuguese languages to indicate pronunciation, as a symbol indicating [..]

(The ~ mark in Spanish and Portuguese); Title

Name of the ~ accent, the diacritical mark used in Spanish señor

(n) a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization

The tilde (~) is a character in the standard ASCII character set that is provided on a conventional computer keyboard and is used in both writing and computer programming. It corresponds to ASCII code [..]

Short form of Mathilde or Matilda.

Short form of Mathilde or Matilda.