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γόνυ

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γόνυ γόνατος

Structure: γονατ (Stem)

Etym.: the ionic forms gou/natos, -ati in Trag., but never gouno/s, gouni/

Sense

  1. knee

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἱκετηρίαν δὲ γόνασιν ἐξάπτω σέθεν τὸ σῶμα τοὐμόν, ὅπερ ἔτικτεν ἥδε σοι, μή μ’ ἀπολέσῃσ ἀώρον· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 3:4)
  • 2 ἐκάθισεν ἐπὶ τῶν γονάτων καὶ οὐχὶ παρὰ τοῖσ γόνασιν ἔστησεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11 2:2)
  • ἡ δὲ ἔλαφοσ ὑπὸ τῶν φυλαττόντων αὐτὴν ἐγγὺσ ἀφεθεῖσα καί κατιδοῦσα τὸν Σερτώριον ἐχώρει δρόμῳ περιχαρὴσ πρὸσ τὸ βῆμα, καί παραστᾶσα τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπέθηκε ταῖσ γόνασιν αὐτοῦ καί τῷ στόματι τῆσ δεξιᾶσ ἔψαυεν, εἰθισμένη καί πρότερον τοῦτο ποιεῖν. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 20 3:1)
  • καὶ τέλοσ, ὡσ πρὸσ αὐτόν ἦλθε τὸν Πομπήϊον, ἀφελόμενοσ τὴν κίταριν ὡρ́μησε πρὸ τῶν ποδῶν θεῖναι, καὶ καταβαλὼν ἑαυτόν, αἴσχιστα δὴ πάντων, προσπεσεῖν αὐτοῦ τοῖσ γόνασιν. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 33 3:2)
  • νέρθε δὲ πάνθ’ ὑπέραντλα νεώσ, κοίλῃ δὲ θάλασσα πλημμύρει, γόνασιν δ’ ἔντρομόσ ἐστι σάλοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 204 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. knee

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