tibia
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪbiə
Noun
tibia (plural tibias or tibiae)
- (anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone
- (entomology) The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.
- (arachnology) The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
- A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tibia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti.bja/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tibia” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Italian
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Latin
Etymology
Meaning may have evolved from "stalk, reed pipe" to shinbone, the latter being used by Pliny and later authors; flutes were originally made from shinbones. Possibly connected to Ancient Greek σίφων (síphōn, “siphon, tube”) reflecting a hypothetical *twi- root, and the irregular forms suggest a non-Indo-European loan source. There are no solid IE cognates outside of the Greek word.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtiː.bi.a/
Noun
tībia f (genitive tībiae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tībia | tībiae |
Genitive | tībiae | tībiārum |
Dative | tībiae | tībiīs |
Accusative | tībiam | tībiās |
Ablative | tībiā | tībiīs |
Vocative | tībia | tībiae |
Related terms
- tībīcina
- tībīcinium
- tībīcinō
Descendants
References
- tibia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tibia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tibia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- tibia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- instrumental music: nervorum et tibiarum cantus
- to play the flute: tibias inflare
- to play the flute: tibiis or tibiā canere
- to sing to a flute accompaniment: ad tibiam or ad tibicinem canere
- instrumental music: nervorum et tibiarum cantus
- tibia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tibia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- de Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.