ἀντικνήμιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀντί (antí) + κνήμη (knḗmē) + -ιον (-ion).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /an.ti.knɛ̌ː.mi.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /an.tiˈkne̝.mi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /an.tiˈkni.mi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /an.tiˈkni.mi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /an.diˈkni.mi.on/
Noun
ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐον • (antiknḗmion) n (genitive ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ου); second declension
- shin
- Aristotle, Historia Animalum 494a.6
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐον; τοῦ ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐον tò antiknḗmion | τὼ ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ω tṑ antiknēmíō | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐᾰ tà antiknḗmia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ου toû antiknēmíou | τοῖν ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́οιν toîn antiknēmíoin | τῶν ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ων tôn antiknēmíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ῳ tôi antiknēmíōi | τοῖν ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́οιν toîn antiknēmíoin | τοῖς ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́οις toîs antiknēmíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐον tò antiknḗmion | τὼ ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ω tṑ antiknēmíō | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐᾰ tà antiknḗmia | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐον antiknḗmion | ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ω antiknēmíō | ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐᾰ antiknḗmia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αντικνήμιο (antiknímio)
Further reading
- “ἀντικνήμιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀντικνήμιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀντικνήμιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀντικνήμιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- shin idem, page 766.