Etymology

knemometry

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Today it means: The measurement of the distance between knee and heel when seated. Full definition →

Ancient Greek κνήμη
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromκνήμη“lower leg”
  2. English todayknemometry

From Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “lower leg”) + -ometry.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekκνήμη all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.