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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

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

  • ὑπὸ μὲν δὴ Ἀμφικτύονοσ αὐτοῦ φασιν ἐσ συνέδριον κοινὸν τοσάδε γένη τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ συναχθῆναι, Ιὤνασ Δόλοπασ Θεσσαλοὺσ Αἰνιᾶνασ Μάγνητασ Μαλιέασ Φθιώτασ Δωριεῖσ Φωκέασ Λοκροὺσ τῇ Φωκίδι ὁμόρουσ ὑπὸ τῷ ὄρει τῇ Κνήμιδι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 3:1)
  • Λοκροὺσ δὲ τοὺσ ὑπὸ τῷ ὄρει τῇ Κνήμιδι Ἡρόδοτοσ μὲν οὐχ ὑπήγαγεν ἐσ ἀριθμόν, ἀλλ’ ἀφικέσθαι σφᾶσ ἀπὸ πασῶν ἔφη τῶν πόλεων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 3:1)

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

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