English
tige
Tige comes from French tige ‘stem’, and goes back to Latin tibia ‘shin bone, leg’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtibia‘shin bone, leg’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttige‘stem’
- Englishearliest quotation 1829same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtibia‘shin bone, leg’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttige‘stem’
- Englishearliest quotation 1829same form
Earliest quotation: 1829, Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, Familiar Lectures on Botany: “The tige is either simple, as in the White…”
Linked words
through Ancient Greek σίφων ‘siphon, tube’
through Latin tibia ‘shin bone, leg’
Today it means
noun A steel pin in early rifles.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin tibia / tige