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κνημός

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κνημός κνημοῦ

Structure: κνημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the projecting limb, shoulder of a mountain

Declension

Second 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

  • διὸ δὴ τό τε τῶν μηρῶν καὶ κνημῶν καὶ τὸ περὶ τὴν τῶν ἰσχίων φύσιν τά τε περὶ τὰ τῶν βραχιόνων ὀστᾶ καὶ τὰ τῶν πήχεων, καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα ἡμῶν ἄναρθρα, ὅσα τε ἐντὸσ ὀστᾶ δι’ ὀλιγότητα ψυχῆσ ἐν μυελῷ κενά ἐστιν φρονήσεωσ, ταῦτα πάντα συμπεπλήρωται σαρξίν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 374:2)
  • τῶν γε μὴν κνημῶν τὰ ὀστᾶ παχέα χρὴ εἶναι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 8:1)
  • περί γε μὴν τῶν κάτωθεν, ἀστραγάλων ἢ κνημῶν καὶ κυνηπόδων καὶ ὁπλῶν, ταὐτὰ λέγομεν ἅπερ περὶ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 18:2)
  • Τί ἀγανακτεῖσ, ὦ Κνήμων; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 3)

Related

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

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