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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

  • μετὰ δὲ εἴκοσι σταδίουσ ἀπὸ Κνημίδων λιμήν, ὑπὲρ οὗ κεῖται τὸ Θρόνιον ἐν σταδίοισ τοῖσ ἴσοισ κατὰ τὴν μεσόγαιαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 4 6:6)

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

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