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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

  • ἐνταῦθα δὴ οἱ μὲν ἔβαλλον ταῖσ βώλοισ καὶ ἔστιν οἳ ἐτύγχανον καὶ θωράκων καὶ γέρρων, οἱ δὲ καὶ μηροῦ καὶ κνημῖδοσ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 22:2)
  • οἱ δ’ ἕτεροι δίχα πωσ καὶ αὐτοὶ διῃρημένοι, οἱ μὲν Ὀπούντιοι ἀπὸ τῆσ μητροπόλεωσ, ὅμοροι Φωκεῦσι καὶ Βοιωτοῖσ, οἱ δ’ Ἐπικνημίδιοι ἀπὸ ὄρουσ Κνημῖδοσ, προσεχεῖσ Οἰταίοισ τε καὶ Μαλιεῦσιν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 3 2:8)
  • ἐπεκαλοῦντο δ’ οἱ μὲν Ὀπούντιοι ἀπὸ τῆσ μητροπόλεωσ, οἱ δ’ Ἐπικνημίδιοι ἀπὸ ὄρουσ τινὸσ Κνημῖδοσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 4 1:4)
  • διέχει δὲ τῆσ Κνημῖδοσ ὁ Κῦνοσ ὅσον πεντήκοντα σταδίουσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 4 2:8)

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

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