ἀντικνήμιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀντί (antí) +‎ κνήμη (knḗmē) +‎ -ιον (-ion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /an.ti.knɛ̌ː.mi.on/ → /an.tiˈkni.mi.on/ → /an.diˈkni.mi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /an.ti.knɛ̌ː.mi.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /an.tiˈkne̝.mi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /an.tiˈkni.mi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /an.tiˈkni.mi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /an.diˈkni.mi.on/

Noun

ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐον • (antiknḗmion) n (genitive ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ου); second declension

1. shin

   Aristotle, Historia Animalum 494a.6

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐον; τοῦ ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐον tò antiknḗmion	τὼ ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ω tṑ antiknēmíō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐᾰ tà antiknḗmia
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ου toû antiknēmíou	τοῖν ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́οιν toîn antiknēmíoin	τῶν ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ων tôn antiknēmíōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ῳ tôi antiknēmíōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́οιν toîn antiknēmíoin	τοῖς ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́οις toîs antiknēmíois
Accusative	τὸ ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐον tò antiknḗmion	τὼ ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ω tṑ antiknēmíō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐᾰ tà antiknḗmia
Vocative	ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐον antiknḗmion	ᾰ̓ντῐκνημῐ́ω antiknēmíō	ᾰ̓ντῐκνήμῐᾰ antiknḗmia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αντικνήμιο (antiknímio)

Further reading

• “ἀντικνήμιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀντικνήμιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀντικνήμιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀντικνήμιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • shin idem, page 766.