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Latin
Noun
tībīcĭnĭum n (genitive tībīcĭnĭī); second declension
- the art of playing the flute, playing the flute,
Marcus Tullius Cicero,
De Natura Deorum II:
- Si ex oliva modulate canentes tibiae nascerentur, num dubitares, quin inesset in oliva tibicini quaedam scientia?
- If melodiously playing flutes were born from the olive tree, would you not doubt that there exists in the olive tree some knowledge of playing the flute?
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “tibicinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tibicinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.