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

  • ἔνθεν καρπαλίμωσ προσέβησ πρὸσ δειράδα θύων ἵκεο δ’ ἐσ Κρίσην ὑπὸ Παρνησὸν νιφόεντα, κνημὸν πρὸσ Ζέφυρον τετραμμένον, αὐτὰρ ὕπερθεν πέτρη ἐπικρέμαται, κοίλη δ’ ὑποδέδρομε βῆσσα, τρηχεῖ’· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , <[Ei)\s A)po/llwna Pu/qion]> 12:3)
  • οἱ δὲ Ἀκαρνᾶνεσ συστραφέντεσ καὶ τοῖσ πολεμίοισ ἐνεδρεύσαντεσ πολλοὺσ ἀπέκτειναν, καὶ συνηνάγκασαν τὸν Κνῆμον ἀπαγαγεῖν τὴν δύναμιν εἰσ τοὺσ ὀνομαζομένουσ Οἰνιάδασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xii, chapter 47 6:1)

Related

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

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