# Tityre-tu

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A member of a gang of criminal youths that originated in the early 1620s.

## Etymology
An allusion to the first line in Virgil's First Eclogue: "Tityre tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi" ("Tityrus, thou reclining beneath the shelter of the spreading beech tree").

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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