The story
- Latin · derived fromtibia“shin bone, leg”
- French · borrowed fromtige“stem”
- English todaytige
Borrowed from French tige (“stem”), from Latin tibia (“shin bone, leg”). Doublet of tibia.
Words from the same roots
Frenchtige all →
tigella
Latintibia all →
tibia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.