Tirà

Tiré is the masculine past participle of the French verb tirer, which means to pull, draw, or shoot. As an adjective, tiré describes something that has been pulled or drawn, and as a past participle it appears in compound verb tenses (for example, il a tiré un coup de feu). In standard grammar, tiré agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies or with the subject in certain constructions.

Common uses include physical pulling or drawing, such as pulling a rope or drawing a weapon, as well as drawing cards, lots, or plans. The phrase tiré au sort is widely used to denote something drawn by lot. Tiré de is used to indicate the source of a quotation or material, meaning “taken from.” The expression tiré à part refers to an excerpt printed separately from a main publication.

In publishing and printing, tiré is connected to the notion of editions or print runs. It appears in phrases like tiré à X exemplaires, which indicate the number of copies produced. In contrast, the noun tirage is more commonly used to denote the overall quantity produced in a print run.

Etymology and scope: tiré comes from tirer, which itself derives from Latin trahere via Old French. The term is used across French-language contexts—from everyday speech to legal, literary, and publishing language—where it helps express notions of drawing, pulling, extraction, or production.