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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /knɛː.mós/ → /kniˈmos/ → /kniˈmos/
Noun
κνημός • (knēmós) m (genitive κνημοῦ); second declension
- projecting limb or shoulder of a mountain
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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 Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “κνημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press