The story
- Latin · derived fromgeniculātus“with bended knee”
- English todaygeniculo-
From Latin geniculātus (“with bended knee”) + -o-, from geniculum (“little knee”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Words from the same roots
Latingeniculātus all →
geniculate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.