different between femur vs tibia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi?m?(?)/
• Rhymes: -i?m?(r)

Noun

femur (plural femurs or femora)

1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
2. (entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
3. (arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.

Derived terms

• femoral

Translations

References

• Webster import

Anagrams

• fumer

Latin

Etymology 1

Unknown. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin can be found.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fe.mur/, [?f?m?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fe.mur/, [?f??mur]

Noun

femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension

1. thigh
2. (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
3. (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

Derived terms

• femor?le

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fe?.mur/, [?fe?m?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fe.mur/, [?f??mur]

Verb

f?mur

1. first-person plural present active subjunctive of for

References

• femur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• femur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• femur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• femur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French fémur.

Noun

femur n (plural femururi)

1. femur

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin t?bia (“shin bone, leg”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?bi?

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 A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
   • 1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument (page 188)

     The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.

Synonyms

• bone flute
• shin
• shinbone, shin bone

Derived terms

• tibial

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin t?bia. Compare the inherited doublet tige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.bja/

Noun

tibia m (plural tibias)

1. shin
2. tibia, shinbone

Derived terms

• protège-tibia

Further reading

• “tibia” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1409 (tiva). Borrowed from Latin t?bia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ti?j?]

Noun

tibia f (plural tibias)

1. (anatomy) tibia, shinbone
2. (archaic) shin
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 97:

     nota que a dita enfirmidade non enpeeçe aos potros mais prestalles porque daqesto engrosam as tiuas por llos homores que se uoluen aas coixas

     note that this sickness is not detrimental for the foals, but it benefits them because the shins swell because of the humors that return to the thighs

References

• “tiua” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tibia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin t?bia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibie)

1. (anatomy, zoology) tibia, shinbone
2. (music) An early wind instrument

Derived terms

• tibiale

Anagrams

• abiti

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 ????? (síph?n, “siphon, tube”) reflecting a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *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) IPA^(key): /?ti?.bi.a/, [?t?i?biä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ti.bi.a/, [?t?i?bi?]

Noun

t?bia f (genitive t?biae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

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, 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.
• 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.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French, Latin t?bia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibii)

1. tibia, shinbone

Synonyms

• fluier (popular)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tibja/, [?t?i.??ja]

Etymology 1

From Latin tepida.

Adjective

tibia

1. feminine singular of tibio

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin tibia.

Noun

tibia f (plural tibias)

1. (anatomy) tibia, shinbone

Related terms