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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

  • ἢ ὡσ Ῥωμαίοισ κνημὶσ μία πρὸ τῆσ κνήμησ τῆσ ἐν ταῖσ μάχαισ προβαλλομένησ, καὶ θώρακεσ, οἳ μὲν φολιδωτοί, οἳ δὲ ἁλύσεσι λεπταῖσ σιδηραῖσ ἐπηλλαγμένοι. (Arrian, chapter 3 9:1)
  • "πρὸσ δὲ Μαρακανδάνοισ τοξεύμασι τὸ τῆσ κνήμησ ὀστέον διεσχίσθην· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 2 2:11)
  • "πρὸσ δὲ Μαρακανδάνοισ τοξεύματι τὸ τῆσ κνήμησ ὀστέον διεσχίσθην τὰ λοιπὰ δ’ Ἰνδῶν πληγαὶ καὶ βίαι λιμῶν· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 211)
  • ἰσχιάδοσ μὲν ἀπὸ μηροῦκατόπιν, ἢ ἰγνύοσ, ἢ κνήμησ, ἡ ἀρχή. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 316)
  • καὶ αἱ παροιμίαι δὲ πᾶσαι ὁμογνωμονοῦσιν, οἱο͂ν τὸ "μία ψυχή" καὶ "κοινὰ τὰ φίλων" καὶ "ἰσότησ φιλότησ" καὶ "γόνυ κνήμησ ἔγγιον· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 87:2)

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

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