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κνημίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κνημίς κνημῖδος

Structure: κνημιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: knh/mh

Sense

  1. a greave or piece of armour from knee to ankle, ox-hide leggings

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κνημίς κνημίδε κνημίδες
Genitive κνημίδος κνημίδοιν κνημίδων
Dative κνημίδι κνημίδοιν κνημίσιν*
Accusative κνημίδα κνημίδε κνημίδας
Vocative κνημί κνημίδε κνημίδες

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.

Similar forms

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

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