Unambiguous Opposite of "The Subtitle of a Film"

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A word to refer to the "The Far Side of the World" part in the film title Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (MC:FSW) might be subtitle. By here, the "Master and Commander" part is called title. But so is the full title MC:FSW.

I tried negating the prefix with supertitle and surtitle, which are opposites of another meaning of subtitle. I also considered location: I'm trying to find a word to describe the first part of a title, so I looked for pretitle. The uses I found meant "coming in a film before or during its opening credits."

Is there another word that means precisely "title but not subtitle"?

I'd call it the series title, or maybe the main title (depending on whether there are other related movies called Master and Commander: [some other text]). — FumbleFingers, Jun 16 '13 at 16:38
It's the title. And it has to be for there to be a sub-title. — Kris, Jun 17 '13 at 05:57

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 17 '13 at 06:00

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It's the title. And it has to be for there to be a sub-title. :)

It's not necessary to say "title but not subtitle" -- the full version should properly be called the full title (including subtitle).

answered Jun 17 '13 at 06:00

Kris

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+1, your explanation of how sub-title comes from title makes a lot of sense to me. Ideally if a work were named "A: B" I would like one word meaning "A", another "B", and one different from either of those meaning "A: B". But if you have an unambiguous single word meaning full title (including subtitle), I will accept this answer. – Jun 17 '13 at 22:57

Unambiguous Opposite of "The Subtitle of a Film"

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