subtitle

To create subtitles for the dialogue in a film.

Noun

  1. A heading below or after a title.
  2. Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.
    • Careful viewers have long observed that in the movies, one can not only watch but read cigarettes like subtitles — translating the action on the screen into another language which the camera registers but rarely...

    Coordinate Terms: intertitle

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Etruscanbor.? Latin titulusbor. Old English titul Middle English title English title English subtitle From sub- + title.

Forms

subtitles

Related

surtitle surtitles surtitled surtitling

Derived

dubtitle subtitled subtitler subtitling subtitlist

Verb

  1. To create subtitles for the dialogue in a film.

Forms

subtitles subtitling subtitled