I.a Roman proper name. So esp., M. Tullius Tiro, the learned freedman of Cicero, Cic. Fam. 16, 10; id. Att. 6, 7, 2; 9, 17, 2 (to him are addressed the letters id. Fam. 16, 3-10; 16, 12-15); Gell. 7, 3, 8; 13, 9, 1 sq.—Hence, Tīrōnĭ-ānus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tiro: “liber,” Gell. 13, 20, 16: “Tironiana cura,” id. 1, 7, 1.
Tīro , ōnis, m.,