genu
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See also: ĝenu
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Latin genu (“knee”).
Noun[edit]
genu (plural genua)
Derived terms[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
| PIE word |
|---|
| *ǵónu |
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
genū n (genitive genūs); fourth declension
Inflection[edit]
Fourth declension neuter.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | genū | genua |
| genitive | genūs | genuum |
| dative | genū | genibus |
| accusative | genū | genua |
| ablative | genū | genibus |
| vocative | genū | genua |
In Vulgar Latin the genitive genoris did occur.[1][2]
- Ernst Diehl (editor), Vulgärlateinische Inschriften, Bonn, 1910, p. 98 f.:
- testor nunc superos: non | hoc meruisse videbar, |
- ín volnus genoris quot || subito occidimus. |
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- genu in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- genu in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- du Cange, Charles (1883), “genu”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
- “genu” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the male, female sex: sexus (not genus) virilis, muliebris
- (ambiguous) to choose a career, profession: genus vitae (vivendi) or aetatis degendae deligere
- (ambiguous) to analyse a general division into its specific parts: genus universum in species certas partiri et dividere (Or. 33. 117)
- (ambiguous) to transplant to Rome one of the branches of poesy: poesis genus ad Romanos transferre
- (ambiguous) style: genus dicendi (scribendi); oratio
- (ambiguous) elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)
- (ambiguous) a running style: fusum orationis genus
- (ambiguous) a rough, unpolished style: inconditum dicendi genus (Brut. 69. 242)
- (ambiguous) a bombastic style: inflatum orationis genus
- (ambiguous) to adopt the language of everyday life: accedere ad cotidiani sermonis genus
- (ambiguous) the male, female sex: sexus (not genus) virilis, muliebris
- ^ Peter Stotz, Handbuch zur lateinischen Sprache des Mittelalters. Vierter Band: Formenlehre, Syntax und Stilistik, 1998, p. 45 and p. 103: „In einem inschriftlichen Gedicht der Antike erscheint die Gen.-Form genoris zu genu“ and „die Gen. sg.-Form genoris zu genu“
- ^ Hieronymus Geist (collector and translator) and Gerhard Pfohl (advisor), Römische Grabinschriften. Gesammelt und ins Deutsche übertragen, 2nd edition, 1976, p. 193f.
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