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tibicen
tibicen
English
Noun
tibicen (plural tibicines)
- (chiefly Roman Antiquities, rare) A flute-player; a piper, flautist.
- 1776, Charles Burney, A General History of Music (1789), volume I, chapter x, page 173:
- When the Lacedaemonians went to battle a Tibicen played soft and soothing music to temper their courage.
- 1891, Charles A. Ward, Oracles of Nostradamus, “Napoleonic Rule”, page 251:
- But this man’s words are spirit itself, and burn their niche in Time, to last as long as that will. Take two of them: “Soldiers, forty centuries look down upon you!” and again, “Behold the sun of Austerlitz!” When you speak, speak thus to men; such words are deeds; and come not as from one who beateth the air to the pitchpipe of the tibicen Ciceronical, but as the bullet to its butt; speak swordpoints, that press between the joints and marrow.
- 2012, Timothy J. Moore, Music in Roman Comedy, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107006485, page 14:
- We have no archaeological evidence that we can with certainty attribute to original performances of Plautus and Terence. We can, however, learn a great deal by examining Greek and later Roman evidence, including artistic portrayals of singers, tibicines, and theatrical performances, and some surviving tibiae.
- 1776, Charles Burney, A General History of Music (1789), volume I, chapter x, page 173:
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Synonyms
- (flute-player): aulete (Greek equivalent), tibicinist (rare)
Translations
flute-player — see flautist
References
Latin
Etymology
tībia (“pipe”, “flute”) + -cen
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /tiːˈbiː.ken/
Noun
tībīcen m (genitive tībīcinis); third declension
Declension
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | tībīcen | tībīcinēs |
genitive | tībīcinis | tībīcinum |
dative | tībīcinī | tībīcinibus |
accusative | tībīcinem | tībīcinēs |
ablative | tībīcine | tībīcinibus |
vocative | tībīcen | tībīcinēs |
Derived terms
- tībīcinō
Related terms
Descendants
- English: tibicen
References
- tibicen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tibicen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to sing to a flute accompaniment: ad tibiam or ad tibicinem canere
- to sing to a flute accompaniment: ad tibiam or ad tibicinem canere
- tibicen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers