κνήμης (knemes)

κνήμης is an Ancient Greek form of κνήμη, meaning “shin, leg”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 44 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute 1.2: … μὲν σφυρὸν ἐτοξεύθην, τὸν δʼ ὦμον ἐκπεσὼν βαρὺς ἐξ ἕδρας περιεδίνησα· πρὸς δὲ Μαρακανδάνοις τοξεύμασι τὸ τῆς κνήμης ὀστέον διεσχίσθην· τὰ λοιπὰ δʼ Ἰνδῶν πληγαὶ καὶ βίαι θυμῶν· ἐν Ἀσπασίοις ἐτοξεύθην τὸν ὦμον, ἐν δὲ Γανδρίδαις …

All forms of κνήμη (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.