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genibus

genibus is a Latin form of genu, meaning “knee”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun.

Found 71 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.108: … una. Id autem caput attingens defessa velut maerentis imago vertitur, quam quidem Graeci Engonasin vocitant, genibus quia nixa feratur. hic illa eximio posita est fulgore Corona. Atque haec quidem a tergo, propter caput autem …

All forms of genu (declension table)

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