Etymology

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Today it means: The knee. Full definition →

Latin genu
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromgenu“knee”
  2. English todaygenu

PIE word *ǵónu Borrowed from Latin genu (“knee”).

Words from the same roots

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genuflectgenual

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