Etymology

-cnemic

Today it means: shinned Full definition →

New Latin cnēmis ← Ancient Greek κνήμη
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκνήμη“shin”
  2. New Latin · borrowed fromcnēmis
  3. English today-cnemic

From New Latin cnēmis, from Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “shin”) + -ic.

Words from the same roots

New Latincnēmis all →

cnemis

Ancient Greekκνήμη all →

cnemecnemisknemometry

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.