Latin

Alternative forms

• *genuculum (see *genuclum)

Noun

geniculum n ‎(genitive geniculī); second declension

1. knee
2. little knot

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

(through Vulgar Latin *genuclum:)

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “geniculum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.