tibicen Latin · revision 32341

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la tībia, la canō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [tiːˈbiː.kɛn]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [tiˈbiː.t͡ʃen]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tībīcen''' ''m'' (genitive tībīcinis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ An inscription from Ostia has the nominative ''tībīcō''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tībia|-cen|t1=pipe|t2=player]], contracted from an older ⟨tībiicen⟩; the second element is from [[m|la|canō|t=to sing, play]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs the compound as [[itc-pro|*tībio-kan-|t=playing on a reed pipe]].^(de Vaan 2008) He finds no good Indo-European etymology for [[m|la|tībia]], which may have come, like [[grc|σίφων|tr=síphōn|t=tube, siphon]], from an unknown source; [[m|la|canō]] goes back to [[ine-pro|*kh₂n-e-|t=to sing]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Casina'': “piper, while they bring the new bride out here...”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a player on the [[tibia]], the Roman reed pipe; ad tībīcinem is to the accompaniment of a piper.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero says that a piper whose pipes give no sound thinks they should be thrown away.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means a prop or strut shoring up a building, as Ovid has a farmhouse standing on a prop.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) In Church Latin it is glossed minstrel, piper or entertainer.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a wedding piper.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a piper and his pipes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a prop holding up a farmhouse.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|piper]], player on the tibia, [[m|en|flute]] player.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|prop]] or strut shoring up a building.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[tībīcĭnĭum]]

+ * [[tībīcinō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tībia]]

+ * [[tībīcina]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The feminine is [[tibicina|alt=tībīcina]], a female piper, which de Vaan dates from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}