geniculate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin geniculātus (“with bended knee”), from geniculum (“little knee”) +‎ -ātus (“-ate”, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): (adjective) /dʒɪˈnɪk.jʊl.ɪt/, (verb) /dʒɪˈnɪk.jʊ.leɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): (adjective) /d͡ʒəˈnɪk.jəl.ɪt/, (verb) /d͡ʒəˈnɪk.jəˌleɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlɪt, -ɪkjʊleɪt

Adjective

geniculate (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, botany) Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee.

   a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal

2. Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
3. (anatomy) Relating to a geniculate nucleus.

Derived terms

• colliculogeniculate
• colliculosuprageniculate
• corticogeniculate
• extrageniculate
• geniculate ganglion
• geniculately
• geniculate nucleus
• geniculo-
• infrageniculate
• intergeniculate
• intrageniculate
• parabigeminogeniculate
• perigeniculate
• postgeniculate
• pregeniculate
• reticulogeniculate
• retinogeniculate
• retrogeniculate
• spleniogeniculate
• suprageniculate
• tectogeniculate
• thalamogeniculate
• transgeniculate

 

Translations

bent abruptly

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膝狀的／膝状的 (xīzhuàngde)

• Spanish: geniculado (es)

Verb

geniculate (third-person singular simple present geniculates, present participle geniculating, simple past and past participle geniculated)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To form joints or knots on.
   • 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:

     a ferulaceous caul, of two Cubits heighth, geniculated, and hard

Derived terms

• geniculated
• geniculation

See also

• lateral geniculate nucleus
• medial geniculate nucleus
• genuflect

References

• “geniculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “geniculate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “geniculate”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡe.ni.kuˈlaː.te/, [ɡɛnɪkʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒe.ni.kuˈla.te/, [d͡ʒenikuˈläːt̪e]

Adjective

geniculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of geniculātus