subtitle
subtitle Lexical Profile
subtitle Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A caption displayed at the bottom of a cinema or television screen that translates or transcribes the dialogue or narrative.
"We watched the French documentary with English subtitles so everyone could follow the interviews."
A subordinate title of a published work or article that gives additional information about its content.
"The author added an explanatory subtitle to clarify the historical scope of the biography."
• verb
To provide a film, television program, or video with on-screen captions that translate or transcribe the dialogue.
"The distribution company hired a team of translators to subtitle the foreign film before its international release."
To give a secondary or explanatory title to a book, article, or other published work.
"She decided to subtitle her monograph to highlight the specific century covered in her research."
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the early 19th century by combining the Latin prefix sub- ('under' or 'secondary') with title; the sense referring to on-screen text in motion pictures emerged in the early 20th century during the silent film era.