noun · femininefirst declension
tībia
tībia f (genitive tībiae)
Classical[ˈtiː.bi.a]Ecclesiastical[ˈtiː.bi.a]
Meaning
- the large shin bone, tibia; leg
- figurativelya pipe, flute (originally of bone)
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
duo calamī longī, quōs ūnus homō simul ōre canit.tibiae -ārum f pl — in Mille Verba, Artēs et Litterae
īnstrūmentum mūsicumtībia -ae (f) — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 9
īnstrūmentum mūsicum, quod ōre īnflāturtībia -ae (f) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 13, 22
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tībia | tībiae |
| genitive | tībiae | tībiārum |
| dative | tībiae | tībiīs |
| accusative | tībiam | tībiās |
| ablative | tībiā | tībiīs |
| vocative | tībia | tībiae |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- tibias inflare
- to play the flute.
- tibiis or tibiā canere
- to play the flute.
- nervorum et tibiarum cantus
- instrumental music.
- ad tibiam or ad tibicinem canere
- to sing to a flute accompaniment.
tībĭa, ae, f.,
I. the large shin-bone, tibia (cf. sura).
I. Lit.:
alterum (os) a priore parte positum, cui tibiae nomen est, Cels. 8, 1 fin.: et in crure (recedit) tibia a surā, id. 8, 11.—B. In gen., the shin-bone, shin, leg:
posse fieri ut genu esset aut tibia aut talus, Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 15: sinistram fregit tibiam, Phaedr. 5, 7, 8. — II. Transf., a pipe, flute (orig. made of bone;
syn. fistula): age tibicen, refer ad labias tibias, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 41: si tibiae inflatae non referant sonum, Cic. Brut. 51. 192: quemadmodum tibicen sine tibiis canere non possit, id. de Or. 2, 83, 338: et fidibus et tibiis canere, Quint. 1, 10, 14: cantus tibiarum, id. 1, 11, 7: tibia digitis pulsata canentum, Lucr. 4, 585: modulate canentes tibiae, Cic. N. D. 2, 8, 22: septenarios ad tibiam fundere, id. Tusc. 1, 44, 107: ubi curva choros indixit tibia Bacchi, Verg. A. 11, 737: biforem dat tibia cantum, id. ib. 9, 618: tibia non ut nunc orichalco vincta tubaeque Aemula, sed tenuis simplexque, Hor. A. P. 202: Phrygio curva sono, Tib. 2, 1, 86: sub cantu querulae tibiae, Hor. C. 3, 7, 30: acris, id. ib. 1, 12, 1: Berecyntia, id. ib. 3, 19, 19; 4, 1, 23: sonante mixtum tibiis carmen lyra, id. Epod. 9, 5: adunco tibia cornu, Ov. M. 3, 533: infracto Berecynthia tibia cornu, id. ib. 11, 16: longa, id. F. 6, 698: scienter tibiis cantasse, Nep. praef. 1; id. Epam. 2, 1: dextera tibia alia quam sinistra, perh. treble and bass pipes, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 15; cf.: modos fecit Flaccus Claudii filius; tibiis paribus dextris et sinistris, i. e. at first with a pair of treble and then with a pair of bass pipes, Didasc. Ter. And.; cf.: acta primum tibiis imparibus, deinde duabus dextris, id. Heaut.; v. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 618; and v. Dict. of Antiq. s. v.—Prov.: paene apertis, ut aiunt, tibiis, from all the holes, with a loud voice, Quint. 11, 3, 50 Spald.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
tībia ae, f
a large shin-bone, tibia, shin, leg: sinistram fregit tibiam, Ph.—(Because the first flutes were of bone), a pipe, flute: ut cantu tibiarum vicinitas personet: tibiae inflatae: septenarios fundat ad tibiam: curva, V.: Tibia non tubae Aemula, sed tenuis simplexque, H.: scienter tibiis cantasse, N.
Origins
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, but as if from pseudo- or regional Proto-Indo-European *tweybʰ-. There are no solid IE cognates outside of the Greek word, though comparisons to Proto-Slavic *stьbъ (“stalk”) have been drawn. Compare tuba (“trumpet”), tubus (“tube”), possibly from the same substrate source.
Descendants
- Frenchtige
- Catalantijafrom French tige
- Catalantíbia
- Englishtibia
- Frenchtibia
- Italiantibia
- Portuguesetíbia
- Romaniantibia
- Spanishtibia
- Piedmontesetija