tibia

See also: tíbia

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• 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 A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tibia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Synonyms

• bone flute
• shin
• shinbone, shin bone

Derived terms

• tibial

Translations

bone of the leg — see shinbone

segment of insect's leg — see shinbone

type of ancient flute

• German: Tibia f
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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tībia. Compare the inherited doublet tige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.bja/

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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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tībia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibias)

1. (anatomy) tibia, shinbone

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tībia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibie)

1. (anatomy, zoology) tibia, shinbone

Derived terms

• tibiale

Anagrams

• abiti

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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may have evolved from "stalk, reed pipe" to shinbone, the latter being used by Pliny and later authors; flutes were originally made from shinbones.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”) reflecting a hypothetical *twi- root, and the irregular forms suggest a non-Indo-European loan or substrate source. There are no solid IE cognates outside of the Greek word.

Pronunciation

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

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.

Case	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

• → Catalan: tíbia
• Catalan: tija
• → English: tibia
• → French: tibia
• French: tige
• → Italian: tibia
• → Portuguese: tíbia
• → Romanian: tibia
• → Spanish: tibia

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^[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
    
• “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.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French, Latin tībia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibii)

1. tibia, shinbone

Synonyms

• fluier (popular)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtibja/ [ˈt̪i.β̞ja]

Etymology 1

From Latin tepida.

Adjective

tibia

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective tibio.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin tibia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibias)

1. (anatomy) tibia

Related terms

• peronés
• ulna