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κνήμη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κνήμη

Structure: κνημ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the part between the knee and ankle, the leg

Declension

First 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

  • κνῆμαι αὐτοῦ στῦλοι μαρμάρινοι τεθεμελιωμένοι ἐπὶ βάσεισ χρυσᾶσ. εἶδοσ αὐτοῦ ὡσ Λίβανοσ, ἐκλεκτὸσ ὡσ κέδροι. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 5:15)
  • αἱ κνῆμαι σιδηραῖ, οἱ πόδεσ μέροσ τι σιδηροῦν καὶ μέροσ τι ὀστράκινον. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 2:33)
  • αἱ κνῆμαι δέ σου βοῶσιν ἰοὺ ἰού, τὰσ χοίνικασ καὶ τὰσ πέδασ ποθοῦσαι. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Parodos17)
  • τοῦ σίνοντοσ ἀναπίμπλησι προσχεομένη τοῖσ ἀναιμοτάτοισ μέρεσι τῆσ σαρκόσ, οἱᾶ κνῆμαι καὶ πόδεσ, καὶ ἀμύσσει καὶ δάκνει τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 6 3:1)
  • ὅτου γὰρ ἂν ὦσιν αἱ κνῆμαι εὐθὺσ γιγνομένου ὑψηλόταται, οὗτοσ μέγιστοσ γίγνεται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 20:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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