tibia
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin tībia (“shin bone, leg”).
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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- A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
- 1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument, page 188:
- The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.
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References edit
- “tibia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Basque edit
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tibia inan
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indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | tibia | tibia | tibiak |
ergative | tibiak | tibiak | tibiek |
dative | tibiari | tibiari | tibiei |
genitive | tibiaren | tibiaren | tibien |
comitative | tibiarekin | tibiarekin | tibiekin |
causative | tibiarengatik | tibiarengatik | tibiengatik |
benefactive | tibiarentzat | tibiarentzat | tibientzat |
instrumental | tibiaz | tibiaz | tibiez |
inessive | tibiatan | tibian | tibietan |
locative | tibiatako | tibiako | tibietako |
allative | tibiatara | tibiara | tibietara |
terminative | tibiataraino | tibiaraino | tibietaraino |
directive | tibiatarantz | tibiarantz | tibietarantz |
destinative | tibiatarako | tibiarako | tibietarako |
ablative | tibiatatik | tibiatik | tibietatik |
partitive | tibiarik | — | — |
prolative | tibiatzat | — | — |
Further reading edit
- "tibia" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
French edit
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Borrowed from Latin tībia. Compare the inherited doublet tige.
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tibia m (plural tibias)
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- “tibia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Attested since 1409 (tiva). Borrowed from Latin tībia.
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Noun edit
tibia f (plural tibias)
- (anatomy) tibia, shinbone
- (archaic) shin
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 97:
- nota que a dita enfirmidade non enpeeçe aos potros mais prestalles porque daqesto engrosam as tiuas por llos homores que se uoluen aas coixas
- note that this sickness is not detrimental for the foals, but it benefits them because the shins swell because of the humors that return to the thighs
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Italian edit
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tibia f (plural tibie)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
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”), the irregular forms suggesting a non-Indo-European loan or substrate source, perhaps in *twi-. There are no solid IE cognates outside of the Greek word.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtiː.bi.a/, [ˈt̪iːbiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈti.bi.a/, [ˈt̪iːbiä]
Noun edit
tībia f (genitive tībiae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | tībia | tībiae |
Genitive | tībiae | tībiārum |
Dative | tībiae | tībiīs |
Accusative | tībiam | tībiās |
Ablative | tībiā | tībiīs |
Vocative | tībia | tībiae |
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- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tibia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French, Latin tībia.
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tibia f (plural tibii)
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This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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Adjective edit
tibia
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Noun edit
tibia f (plural tibias)
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Further reading edit
- “tibia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014