Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • πρωτοφυὲσ τόγ’ ἀνέσχε καταστάξαντοσ ἔραζε αἰετοῦ ὠμηστέω κνημοῖσ ἔνι Καυκασίοισιν αἱματόεντ’ ἰχῶρα Προμηθῆοσ μογεροῖο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 14:26)

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

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