γόνυ - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Proto-Hellenic *gónu, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. Cognates include Sanskrit जानु (jānu), Latin genu, Old Armenian ծունգք (cungkʻ), Gothic 𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌿 (kniu), and Old English cnēow (English knee).
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡó.ny/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡo.ny/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣo.ny/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣo.ny/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣo.ni/
γόνῠ • (gónu) n (genitive γόνᾰτος); third declension
- Poetic: genitive singular: γουνός (gounós), dative singular: γουνί (gouní), plural (nom, acc, voc): γοῦνα (goûna), genitive plural: γούνων (goúnōn)
- Aeolic: plural (nom, acc, voc): γόνα (góna), plural genitive: γόνων (gónōn)
- γονῠαλγής (gonualgḗs)
- γονῠκαμψεπίκυρτος (gonukampsepíkurtos)
- γονῠκαυσαγρύπνα (gonukausagrúpna)
- γονῠκλινέω (gonuklinéō)
- γονῠκλινής (gonuklinḗs)
- γονῠκλιτέω (gonuklitéō)
- γονύκροτος (gonúkrotos)
- γονῠπετέω (gonupetéō)
- γονῠπετής (gonupetḗs)
- γονῠπλήξ (gonuplḗx)
- ἐπῐγονᾰτῐ́ς (epigonatís)
- γνύξ (gnúx)
- Greek: γόνατο (gónato)
- “γόνυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γόνυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “γόνυ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- γόνυ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- γόνυ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- γόνυ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “γόνυ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1119 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- γόνυ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- knee idem, page 470.
- γόνατο (gónato) (standard form)
From Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu).
γόνυ • (góny) n (plural γόνατα)
- (archaic, expression) knee. Used in the set phrase (in indication of respect):
- κλίνω το γόνυ ― klíno to góny ― I show respect (literally, “I bend the knee”)