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Latin
Etymology
From geniculum (“little knee”) + -ātus (“-ate”, adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
geniculātus (feminine geniculāta, neuter geniculātum); first/second-declension adjective
- with bended knees
- (transferred sense) (in general) bended, curved
- knotty (full of knots), jointed, geniculated
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Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “geniculatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “geniculatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- geniculatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.