tibia

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪbiə

Etymology

Latin

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.
2. (zoology) A segment of an insect's leg.
3. A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Synonyms

• bone flute
• shin
• shinbone, shin bone

Derived terms

• tibial

Translations

bone of the leg

• Arabic: قصبة (ar) (qáSaba) f

  Egyptian Arabic: قصبة الرجل (ʔaṣabet e-regl) f

• Bulgarian: голям пищял (bg) (golyam pishtyal) m, костен гонг (bg) (kosten gong) m
• Catalan: tíbia (ca) f
• Czech: holenní kost f
• Dutch: scheenbeen (nl) n, tibia (nl) f
• Esperanto: tibio (eo)
• Finnish: sääriluu (fi)
• French: tibia (fr) m
• German: Tibia (de) f, Schienbein (de) n
• Hungarian: sípcsont (hu)
• Ido: tibio (io)

• Italian: tibia (it) f
• Japanese: 脛骨 (けいこつ, keikotsu)
• Latin: gongus osseus (la), tibia (la)
• Macedonian: цеваница (mk) (cevánica) f
• Maori: takakaha (mi)
• Polish: piszczel f or m
• Portuguese: tíbia (pt) f
• Romanian: tibia (ro) f
• Russian: большеберцовая кость f
• Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh-mòr-na-lurgainn m
• Serbian: golen f, golenica f, cevanica f
• Spanish: tibia (es) f
• Swedish: skenben (sv) n
• Volapük: tibiad (vo)

type of ancient flute

• German: Tibia (de) f

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ti.bja/, X-SAMPA: /ti.bja/

Noun

tibia m (plural tibias)

1. shin
2. tibia, shinbone

Derived terms

• protège-tibia

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Galician

Noun

tibia f (plural tibias)

1. (anatomy) tibia, shinbone

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Italian

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Noun

tibia f (plural tibie)

1. (anatomy, zoology) tibia, shinbone

Derived terms

• tibiale

Anagrams

• abiti

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈtiː.bi.a/

Noun

tībia (genitive tībiae); f, first declension

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

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	tībia	tībiae
genitive	tībiae	tībiārum
dative	tībiae	tībiīs
accusative	tībiam	tībiās
ablative	tībiā	tībiīs
vocative	tībia	tībiae

Derived terms

tībiālis tībiārius

tībīcen tībinus

Related terms

• tībīcina
• tībīcinium
• tībīcinō

Descendants

English: tibia (borrowing) French: tige Italian: tibia

Romanian: tibia Spanish: tibia

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Spanish

Etymology 1

Latin tepida.

Adjective

tibia f (masculine tibio, feminine plural tibias, masculine plural tibios)

1. feminine form of tibio

Etymology 2

Latin tibia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibias)

1. (anatomy) tibia

Related terms

• ulna
• peronés