κνημός

See also: Κνῆμος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /knɛː.mós/ → /kniˈmos/ → /kniˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /knɛː.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kne̝ˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kniˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kniˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kniˈmos/

Noun

κνημός • (knēmós) m (genitive κνημοῦ); second declension

1. projecting limb or shoulder of a mountain

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κνημός; τοῦ κνημοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κνημός ho knēmós	τὼ κνημώ tṑ knēmṓ	οἱ κνημοί hoi knēmoí
Genitive	τοῦ κνημοῦ toû knēmoû	τοῖν κνημοῖν toîn knēmoîn	τῶν κνημῶν tôn knēmôn
Dative	τῷ κνημῷ tôi knēmôi	τοῖν κνημοῖν toîn knēmoîn	τοῖς κνημοῖς toîs knēmoîs
Accusative	τὸν κνημόν tòn knēmón	τὼ κνημώ tṑ knēmṓ	τοὺς κνημούς toùs knēmoús
Vocative	κνημέ knēmé	κνημώ knēmṓ	κνημοί knēmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πολύκνημον (polúknēmon)

Further reading

• “κνημός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κνημός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κνημός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κνημός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “κνημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press