geniculum

== English == === Noun === geniculum (plural genicula) A small genu, or angular knee-like structure, especially (anatomy) a sharp knee-like bend in a small structure or organ. == Latin == === Alternative forms === geniculus === Etymology === From genū (“knee”) +‎ -culum (diminutive nominal suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡɛˈnɪ.kʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d͡ʒeˈniː.ku.lum] === Noun === geniculum n (genitive geniculī); second declension diminutive of genū: (literally) little knee, knee (transferred sense, botany) knot or joint on the stalk of a plant ==== Inflection ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Late Latin: genuculum (see there for further descendants) === References === “geniculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "geniculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “geniculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.