tibia

English

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tibia

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tībia (“shin bone, leg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪbiə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪbiə

Noun

tibia (plural tibias or tibiae)

1. (anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone
2. (entomology) The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.
3. (arachnology) The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
4. A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.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.

Synonyms

• bone flute
• shin
• shinbone, shin bone

Derived terms

• tibia vara
• tibial

Translations

References

• “tibia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tibia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tibia/,

Noun

tibia inan

1. shin, shinbone

Declension

Further reading

• "tibia" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tībia. Compare the inherited doublet tige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.bja/

• Audio

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Noun

tibia m (plural tibias)

1. shin
2. tibia, shinbone

Derived terms

• protège-tibia

Further reading

• “tibia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1409 (tiva). Borrowed from Latin tībia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

tibia f (plural tibias)

1. (anatomy) tibia, shinbone
2. (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

References

• “tiua” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tibia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

tibia

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tībia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibie)

1. (anatomy, zoology) tibia, shinbone
2. (music) an early wind instrument

Derived terms

• tibiale

Anagrams

• abiti, baiti

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”), 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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.bi.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.bi.a/,

Noun

tībia f (genitive tībiae); first declension

1. (anatomy) the large shin bone, tibia; leg
2. (figuratively) a pipe, flute (originally of bone)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

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 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, 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
    
• “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

Etymology

Borrowed from French, Latin tībia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibii)

1. tibia, shinbone

   Synonym: (popular) fluier

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtibja/
• Rhymes: -ibja
• Syllabification: ti‧bia

Etymology 1

From Latin tepida.

Adjective

tibia

1. feminine singular of tibio

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin tibia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibias)

1. (anatomy) tibia, shinbone

Related terms

Further reading

• “tibia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014