geniculum

Latin

Alternative forms

*genuclum)

Etymology

genū +‎ -culus.

Noun

geniculum n (genitive geniculī); second declension (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin)

knee
little knot

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	geniculum	genicula
genitive	geniculī	geniculōrum
dative	geniculō	geniculīs
accusative	geniculum	genicula
ablative	geniculō	geniculīs
vocative	geniculum	genicula

Descendants

(through Vulgar Latin *genuclum:)

Aromanian: dzinuclju, dzãnuclju
Catalan: genoll
Corsican: ghjinochju
Dalmatian: denacle
French: genou
Friulian: zenoli, genoli
Galician: xeonllo
Istriot: zanucio
Istro-Romanian: jeruncľu
Italian: ginocchio
Mirandese: zinolho
Norman: g'nou

Megleno-Romanian: zinucl'u
Occitan: genolh
Old French: genoil
Old Portuguese: gẽollo, geonllo
Portuguese: joelho
Romanian: genunchi
Romansch: schanugl
Sardinian (Gallurese): ghinocchiu
Sicilian: ginocchiu, dinocchiu, jinocchiu
Spanish: hinojo
Venetian: zenocio
Walloon: djno, djino

References

geniculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
geniculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
geniculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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