Other forms: entitled, entitles, entitling
To entitle is to give somebody a right, or to give a work its name. Entitle you to a refund, a book entitled, be entitled to vote.
The rights sense is the common one and is usually passive: you are entitled to something. The naming sense is formal and is the correct word for a title, though the adjective entitled has lately come to mean expecting more than your due.
1verbentitleTo give somebody a right, or to give a work its name.
“Your ticket entitles you to free entry to the museum's gardens.”
entitle is a granting.
Old French entiteler comes from Latin intitulare, from titulus, a title.
Latin
intitulāre
Old French
entiteler
Anglo-Norman
entitler
English, today
entitle
From Anglo-Norman entitler, from Old French entiteler, (French intituler), from Latin intitulāre.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA