genuculum

== Latin == === Etymology === Modification of earlier geniculum, diminutive of genū (“knee”). Attested from the fourth century CE. === Noun === genuculum n (genitive genuculī); second declension (Late Latin) knee ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === References === Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “hinojo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 366