#title

• To pre-entitle — To give a preliminary title, to entitle in advance, or to introduce a provisional heading to a text, a chapter, a literary work, or an administrative document before its final form or official publication. As a reflexive verb, it designates the action of a section or writing to name itself in a certain way in a previous editing phase.
• Pre-titling — The act of pre-entitling and its result; the process of naming, titling, or assigning a preliminary or provisional title to a text, chapter, or literary work before final editing or official publication. It represents a specific stage in textual criticism and desktop publishing, whereby temporary thematic benchmarks are established.
• Pre-entitled — Having been provided with a preliminary, provisional, or working title; entitled in advance. It applies to texts, chapters, or literary sketches whose designations were fixed in a stage prior to definitive drafting or final proofreading.
• Anthypatus — An honorary title or high-ranking administrative office in the Byzantine Empire, usually granted to provincial governors, important magistrates, or high-ranking ecclesiastical dignitaries. This structural term originates from the Greek translation of the Roman title of proconsul, designating a person invested with supreme civil and judicial authority over a specific territory or district.
• Appellation — A formal designation, title, or mode of address assigned to a person or an object; an obsolete variant for the term 'apelație' or 'apel'. In 19th-century legal and administrative texts, it designated the official action of challenging a lower court judgment or the regulated manner of naming a public office.
• Apesa — A high-ranking administrative or honorary title historically used in certain Caucasian cultures or Eastern European tribal communities to designate a military leader, a local ruler, or an official with judicial powers. In rare historiographical studies, the term describes the status of a clan chief.
• Apitherapist — A practitioner or specialist (often a licensed medical professional) trained in apitherapy; a person who prescribes, prepares, or administers treatments based exclusively on biological hive products (honey, propolis, royal jelly, pollen, apilarnil, bee venom) for therapeutic, regenerative, or preventive purposes.
• Nobleman — An honorific term and courtesy title used historically in the Byzantine Empire and later in the Romanian Principalities, denoting a great boyar, a nobleman of ancient lineage, or a high-ranking clerical or secular official. In current monastic contexts (especially on Mount Athos), the word is used as a respectful form of address for distinguished guests or pilgrims, reflecting a structural dignity recognized by the community.
• Archondology — An auxiliary discipline of history dealing with the systematic study of noble titles, boyar ranks, and administrative dignities in a state; an official work, catalog, or register containing chronological lists of boyars and the offices they held.
• Archontology — A graphic variant of 'arhondologie'; an auxiliary discipline of history that studies the chronological lists, genealogies, noble titles, and ranks held by high boyars or magistrates in a medieval or ancient state.
• Augusta — A feminine given name of Latin origin, meaning 'venerable' or 'majestic', used as an honorary title for Roman empresses. It also functions as a major toponym, being the name of the capital city of Georgia (USA) or Maine (USA).
• Augusti — A collective designation granted to Roman emperors bearing the supreme title 'Augustus'. During the Tetrarchy instituted by Diocletian, the term specifically described the two co-emperors of senior rank (the Western and Eastern Augusti) who ruled alongside two designated Caesars.
• Augustus — An honorific title with sacred meaning granted by the Roman Senate in 27 BC to Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Subsequently, the term became his official name and the supreme title borne by all imperial monarchs.
• Autokrator — An official title borne by certain absolute monarchs, especially Byzantine emperors and Russian tsars, as the equivalent of the Latin term 'imperator', designating a sovereign who rules by their own absolute and unlimited authority. In a broader sense, the term refers to an autocratic ruler self-invested with full powers in the state.
• To style oneself — To arbitrarily attribute to oneself, without any legal justification or recognition from an authority, a title of nobility, a leadership position, a special quality, or a dignity; to style oneself. In political analysis, the action describes leaders of radical groups or illegitimate regimes who arrogate sovereign attributes to simulate legitimacy before the masses.
• Self-styling — The act of styling oneself or arrogating a title and its result; the arbitrary and unauthorized attribution of a title, function, quality, or dignity to oneself, without prior legal or social recognition. In public discourse analysis, the phenomenon is often interpreted as a rhetorical strategy for artificial legitimization or self-assumption of a desired identity.
• Elder woman — An archaic or regional form used in the past as an honorific title or respectful term of address for a grandmother, an elderly woman, an abbess, or a spiritual mother; (in some regions) a short variant for 'grandmother' or 'aunt'.
• Babu — An honorific term used in Indian languages (especially Hindi and Bengali) to express respect towards a man, equivalent to 'sir' or 'father'. During the British colonial rule, the word also acquired a pejorative or bureaucratic nuance, designating an educated native clerk or public official often criticized for overly formal or servile behavior.
• Archaic master — An old honorific title, respectful address term, or administrative word of oriental origin used in the past to designate a master, a landlord, or an estate manager. In certain regional idioms, it was integrated into the sphere of politeness terms used for elderly men.
• Little boy — A familiar, affectionate, or slightly ironic diminutive form for a small boy, a frail little lad, or a youth treated with indulgence; a little boy. The term is often used in direct address as a friendly or condescending title, nuancing the intimacy between speakers in colloquial language.