entitle

Here the verb hands over a permission rather than a name, and it always takes to. That can be an infinitive, as when a passport entitles the bearer to travel, or a noun, as when conditions entitle tenants to a refund. In everyday use it turns up most often in the passive (you are entitled to a break), with whoever grants the right left unstated.

The everyday sense for books, films and plays. Its commonest shape is the past participle placed right after the work: his autobiography, entitled Life of a Driver, was a best-seller. The participle phrase sits between commas, and the title follows it directly, with no linking word in between. Elsewhere the general naming sense can apply to anything at all, but this one is narrowed to creative works.

The naming sense, built on the word title itself: Anglo-Norman entitler, from Old French entiteler and Late Latin intitulāre. Modern French keeps the Latin shape in intituler. Because a title can be a claim as well as a name, the verb slides easily from naming into granting. A deed can entitle her to an undivided interest in a property, and that is the road to the ownership meaning.