genu

Ernst Diehl (editor), Vulgärlateinische Inschriften, Bonn, 1910, p. 98 f.:
testor nunc superos: non | hoc meruisse videbar, |

ín volnus genoris quot || subito occidimus. |

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
genu in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
genu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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

^ 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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