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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

  • καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτοὺσ κνήμην ἐπὶ μηρὸν πληγὴν μεγάλην. καὶ κατέβη καὶ ἐκάθισεν ἐν τρυμαλιᾷ τῆσ πέτρασ Ἠτάμ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 15:8)
  • Πολυνείκησ δ’ ἀπήντησεν δορί, πληγὴν σιδήρῳ παραδοθεῖσαν εἰσιδών, κνήμην τε διεπέρασεν Ἀργεῖον δόρυ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 3:2)
  • ἔστι δὲ κιθὼν λίνεοσ αὐτοῖσιν ἔστε ἐπὶ μέσην τὴν κνήμην, νῆμα δὲ τὸ μὲν τοῖσιν ὤμοισι περιβεβλημένον, τὸ δὲ περὶ τῇσι κεφαλῇσιν εἰλιγμένον. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 16 2:1)
  • ἐπὶ Γρανίκου ξίφει διακοπεὶσ τὸ κράνοσ ἄχρι τῶν τριχῶν, ἐν Γάζῃ βέλει πληγεὶσ τὸν ὦμον, ἐν Μαρακάνδοισ τοξεύματι τὴν κνήμην ὥστε τῆσ κερκίδοσ τὸ ὀστέον ἀποκλασθὲν ὑπὸ τῆσ πληγῆσ ἐξαλέσθαι· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 9 9:1)
  • "" Ἀλεξάνδρου δ’ εἰ μηδὲν ἄλλο, τὸ σῶμ’ ἰδοῦ κατατετρωμένον ἐξ ἄκρασ κεφαλῆσ ἄχρι ποδῶν διακέκοπται καὶ περιτέθλασται τυπτόμενον ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων ἔγχεΐ τ’ ἀόρί τε μεγάλοισί τε χερμαδίοισιν ἐπὶ Γρανίκου ξίφει διακοπεὶσ τὸ κράνοσ ἄχρι τῶν τριχῶν, ἐν Γάζῃ βέλει πληγεὶσ τὸν ὦμον, ἐν Μαρακάνδοισ τοξεύματι τὴν κνήμην ὥστε τῆσ κερκίδοσ τὸ ὀστέον ἀποκλασθὲν ὑπὸ τῆσ πληγῆσ ἐξαλέγθαι· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 9 1:8)

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

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