genu

Borrowed from Latin genu (“knee”).

genu (plural genua)

1. (anatomy, zoology) knee
2. A knee-like bend.

• genual
• genuflect

• Egun

From Proto-Italic *genū, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.nuː/, [ˈɡɛ.nuː]

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genū n (genitive genūs); fourth declension

1. knee
2. elbow

Fourth declension neuter.

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. |

• geniculum
• genuflecto

• 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, 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