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"english": "that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven, on earth, and under the earth.",
"text": "4th century, St. Jerome, Vulgate, Philippians 2:10 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippenses%202&version=VULGATE\nut in nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur caelestium, terrestrium et infernorum",
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"form": "genua",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "genū<4>"
},
"expansion": "genū n (genitive genūs); fourth declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
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"args": {
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},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"la:Anatomy"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven, on earth, and under the earth.",
"text": "4th century, St. Jerome, Vulgate, Philippians 2:10 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippenses%202&version=VULGATE\nut in nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur caelestium, terrestrium et infernorum",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a knee, kneejoint, kneepan"
],
"links": [
[
"anatomy",
"anatomy"
],
[
"knee",
"knee"
],
[
"kneejoint",
"kneejoint"
],
[
"kneepan",
"kneepan"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literally, anatomy) a knee, kneejoint, kneepan"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"literally"
],
"topics": [
"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"an elbow"
],
"links": [
[
"elbow",
"elbow"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"glosses": [
"an act of kneeling or beseeching"
],
"links": [
[
"kneeling",
"kneeling"
],
[
"beseeching",
"beseeching"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense) an act of kneeling or beseeching"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with transferred senses",
"la:Botany"
],
"glosses": [
"a knot, joint"
],
"links": [
[
"botany",
"botany"
],
[
"knot",
"knot"
],
[
"joint",
"joint"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense, botany) a knot, joint"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "geniculum"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-4"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"botany",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡe.nuː/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈɡɛnuː]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡe.nu/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈɡɛnʊ]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒe.nu/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒɛːnu]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "genum"
},
{
"word": "genus"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch",
"de:Peter Stotz"
],
"word": "genu"
}
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