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Yes. The word tithe is a Scrabble US word. The word tithe is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (1 found)

TITHE,

4-letter words (2 found)

TETH,TITE,

3-letter words (8 found)

ETH,HET,HIE,HIT,TET,THE,TIE,TIT,

2-letter words (7 found)

EH,ET,HE,HI,IT,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from tithe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of tithe

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Definitions and meaning of tithe

tithe

Etymology

From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoðian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taɪð/
  • Rhymes: -aɪð

Noun

tithe (plural tithes)

  1. (archaic) A tenth.
  2. (historical) The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses; a tax taking ten percent of land or stock profits, used for religious or charitable purposes.
    Synonyms: decim, (Italian contexts) decima, decimate, decimation, tithing, titheling
  3. A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church).
  4. A small part or proportion.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • tithe proctor (“levier or collector of a tithe”)

Adjective

tithe (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Tenth.

Verb

tithe (third-person singular simple present tithes, present participle tithing, simple past and past participle tithed)

  1. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
    1. (transitive) To pay something as a tithe.
      • 854, "Grant by Adulf" in Cartularium Saxonicum, Book ii, 79:
        He teoðode gynd eall his cyne rice ðone teoðan del ealra his landa.
    2. (transitive) To pay a tithe upon something.
      • c. 897, King Alfred translating St Gregory, Pastoral Care, Chapter lvii:
        ...ge tiogoðiað eowre mintan & eowerne dile & eowerne kymen.
    3. (intransitive) To pay a tithe; to pay a 10% tax
      Synonym: decimate
      • a. 1200, Trinity College Homilies, 215:
        Þe prest þe meneȝeð rihtliche teðien.
    4. (intransitive, figuratively) To pay or offer as a levy in the manner of a tithe or religious tax.
      • 1630, Anonymous translation of Giovanni Botero, anonymously translated as Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-wealths, p. 510:
        These slaves are either the sonnes of Christians, tithed in their childhoods, Captives taken in the warres, or Renegadoes.
  2. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
    1. (transitive) To impose a tithe upon someone or something.
      • 1382, Wycliffite Bible, Hebrews 7:9:
        Leeuy, that took tithis, is tithid.
    2. (transitive) To spare only every tenth person, killing the rest (usually in relation to the sacking of the episcopal seat at Canterbury by the pagan Danes in 1011).
    3. (transitive) To enforce or collect a tithe upon someone or something.
      Synonyms: decimate, tithe out
      • 1591, The Troublesome Raigne of Iohn King of England, i, G:
        The Monkes the Priors and holy cloystred Nunnes,
        Are all in health,...
        Till I had tythde and tolde their holy hoords.
    4. (transitive, obsolete) To decimate: to kill every tenth person, usually as a military punishment.
      Synonym: decimate
    5. (intransitive) To enforce or collect a tithe.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To compose the tenth part of something.

Derived terms

  • tithed
  • tithe out
  • tithing

Translations

Anagrams

  • Hiett

Irish

Alternative forms

  • tighthe (superseded)
  • toighthe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʲɪhɪ/
  • (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /ˈtʲiː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠɪhə/ (corresponding to the form toighthe)

Noun

tithe m pl

  1. plural of teach (“house”)
  2. housing
    Synonym: tithíocht

Mutation

References

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tithe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “tithe” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “tithe” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • tethe, teþe, teoþe, teouþe, tewthe, teythe, teyþe, tiþe, tyth, tythe, tyþe
  • teoheðe, teoðe, tieðe, tigeðe, tigðe, tiȝeþe (Early Middle English)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English tēoþa, teogoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *tehundō, *tegundō, from Proto-Germanic *tehundô, *tegundô; equivalent to ten +‎ -the (ordinal suffix); compare tenthe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteːð(ə)/, /ˈtiːð(ə)/
  • (dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈtæi̯ð(ə)/, /ˈtiu̯ð(ə)/

Adjective

tithe

  1. tenth

Descendants

  • English: tithe (obsolete)

Noun

tithe (plural tithes)

  1. One of ten equal parts of a whole; a tenth.
  2. A tithe; a tenth of one's income given to clergy.

Related terms

  • tithen
  • tither
  • tithyng

Descendants

  • English: tithe
  • Scots: teith (obsolete)

References

  • “tīthe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  • “tīth(e, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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