tibicen

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English

Etymology

From the Latin tībīcen (“piper, flautist”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tibicen (plural tibicines)

  1. (chiefly Roman Antiquities, rare) A flute-player; a piper, flautist.
    • 1776, Charles Burney, chapter X, in A General History of Music, volume I, published 1789, page 173:
      When the Lacedaemonians went to battle a Tibicen played soft and soothing music to temper their courage.
    • 1891, Charles A. Ward, “Napoleonic Rule”, in Oracles of Nostradamus, page 251:
      But this man’s words are spirit itself, and burn their niche in Time, to last as long as that will. Take two of them: “Soldiers, forty centuries look down upon you!” and again, “Behold the sun of Austerlitz!” When you speak, speak thus to men; such words are deeds; and come not as from one who beateth the air to the pitchpipe of the tibicen Ciceronical, but as the bullet to its butt; speak swordpoints, that press between the joints and marrow.
    • 2012, Timothy J. Moore, Music in Roman Comedy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 14:
      We have no archaeological evidence that we can with certainty attribute to original performances of Plautus and Terence. We can, however, learn a great deal by examining Greek and later Roman evidence, including artistic portrayals of singers, tibicines, and theatrical performances, and some surviving tibiae.

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Translations

flute-player — see flautist

References

  • NED X, part i (Ti-U; 1st ed., 1926), § 1 (Ti-Tz), page 2/1, “‖Tibicen”

Latin

Etymology

For *tībiicen, tībia (“pipe”, “flute”) +‎ -cen

Pronunciation

Noun

tībīcen m (genitive tībīcinis); third declension

  1. piper, flautist
  2. (transferred sense) a kind of pillar, support, or prop of a building

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tībīcen tībīcinēs
Genitive tībīcinis tībīcinum
Dative tībīcinī tībīcinibus
Accusative tībīcinem tībīcinēs
Ablative tībīcine tībīcinibus
Vocative tībīcen tībīcinēs

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • English: tibicen
  • Italian: tibìcine

References

  • “tibicen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tibicen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to sing to a flute accompaniment: ad tibiam or ad tibicinem canere
  • “tibicen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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