knee-joint

gĕnu, ūs, n. (also nom. sing. gĕnum, n., Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 5, 44; and gĕnus, m., Lucil. ap. Non. 207, 28; gen. sing. genuis; dat. genui, genu, Mart. Cap. 3, § 293. —In neutr., nom. and acc. sing. genus, Cic. Arat. 45; 46; 399; 403; plur. gēnu͡a, as a dissyllable, Carey's Lat. Prosody, § 47; Verg. A. 5, 432; 12, 905; gen. plur. genuorum, Vitr. 9, 6 dub.; dat. plur. genubus, Sen. Thyest. 406; Hippol. 667; Mart. Cap. 3, § 293;

but usu. genibus,

Curt. 10, 5, 24; Tac. A. 12, 18; Liv. 44, 31 fin.; Ov. M. 13, 585) [kindr. with Sanscr. jānu; Gr. gonu; Goth. kniu; Germ. Knie; Engl. knee], the knee.

Lit.:

meus est ballista pugnus, cubitus catapulta est mihi, Umerus aries: tum genu ut quemque icero, ad terram dabo,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 17: hujus genus, Cic. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 22:

fine genus vestem ritu succincta Dianae,

Ov. M. 10, 536:

per aquam ferme genus tenus altam,

Liv. 44, 40, 8 Drak. N. cr.:

in ipsa genus utriusque commissura,

knee-joint, Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 250:

sedatis tibi doloribus genus,

Fronto Ep. p. 134 Rom.:

dolorem genus suscitare,

id. ib. p. 138:

ne quem in cursu capite aut cubito offendam aut genu,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 3:

genu mehercule M. Antonium vidi, cum contente pro se ipse lege Varia diceret, terram tangere,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57:

genua inediā succidunt,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 30:

dumque virent genua,

Hor. Epod. 13, 4:

genuum junctura,

knee-joint, Ov. M. 2, 823:

genuumque tumebat orbis,

knee-pan, id. ib. 8, 809: ad genua accidere, Enn. ap. Non. 517, 16 (Com. Rel. v. 9 Vahl.):

procidere,

Sen. Contr. 7, 17, 12:

ad genua se alicui submittere,

Suet. Tib. 20; cf.:

genua amplexus genibusque volutans Haerebat,

Verg. A. 3, 607:

atqui pol hodie non feres, ni genua confricantur,

i. e. be clasped in earnest entreaty, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 80; so,

fricare,

ib. 88:

nunc tibi amplectimur genua egentes opum,

id. Rud. 1, 5, 16; cf.:

exurgite a genibus,

id. ib. v. 22: advolvi, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 311; Tac. A. 1, 13 fin.; 6, 49; 15, 71;

for which: genibus se advolvere or advolvi,

Liv. 8, 37 fin.; 28, 34, 4; Vell. 2, 80 fin.:

nixi genibus ab senatu petierunt, ne, etc.,

Liv. 43, 2, 2:

muta metu terram genibus summissa petebat,

Lucr. 1, 92:

corde et genibus tremit,

Hor. C. 1, 23, 8:

jus imperiumque Phraates Caesaris accepit genibus minor,

i. e. kneeling, beseeching, id. Ep. 1, 12, 28; Vulg. Phil. 2, 10 saep.:

genu ponere,

to bow the knee, Curt. 4, 6, 28; so,

alicui,

id. 8, 7, 13:

genu flectere, Hier. in. Eph. 3, 14: inflexo genu adorare aliquem,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 410:

nixi genibus,

on bended knees, Liv. 43, 2, 2:

per tua genua te opsecro,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 31:

genua incerare deorum,

i. e. to attach to the statues of the gods wax tablets with prayers written on them, Juv. 10, 55.—

Transf., of plants, a knot, joint, usually called geniculum:

a genibus (ferulae) exeuntia folia,

Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123.

gĕnu, ūs, n. (also nom. sing. gĕnum, n., Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 5, 44; and gĕnus, m., Lucil. ap. Non. 207, 28; gen. sing. genuis; dat. genui, genu, Mart. Cap. 3, § 293. —In neutr., nom. and acc. sing. genus, Cic. Arat. 45; 46; 399; 403; plur. gēnu͡a, as a dissyllable, Carey's Lat. Prosody, § 47; Verg. A. 5, 432; 12, 905; gen. plur. genuorum, Vitr. 9, 6 dub.; dat. plur. genubus, Sen. Thyest. 406; Hippol. 667; Mart. Cap. 3, § 293;

but usu. genibus,

Curt. 10, 5, 24; Tac. A. 12, 18; Liv. 44, 31 fin.; Ov. M. 13, 585) [kindr. with Sanscr. jānu; Gr. gonu; Goth. kniu; Germ. Knie; Engl. knee], the knee.

Lit.:

meus est ballista pugnus, cubitus catapulta est mihi, Umerus aries: tum genu ut quemque icero, ad terram dabo,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 17: hujus genus, Cic. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 22:

fine genus vestem ritu succincta Dianae,

Ov. M. 10, 536:

per aquam ferme genus tenus altam,

Liv. 44, 40, 8 Drak. N. cr.:

in ipsa genus utriusque commissura,

knee-joint, Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 250:

sedatis tibi doloribus genus,

Fronto Ep. p. 134 Rom.:

dolorem genus suscitare,

id. ib. p. 138:

ne quem in cursu capite aut cubito offendam aut genu,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 3:

genu mehercule M. Antonium vidi, cum contente pro se ipse lege Varia diceret, terram tangere,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57:

genua inediā succidunt,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 30:

dumque virent genua,

Hor. Epod. 13, 4:

genuum junctura,

knee-joint, Ov. M. 2, 823:

genuumque tumebat orbis,

knee-pan, id. ib. 8, 809: ad genua accidere, Enn. ap. Non. 517, 16 (Com. Rel. v. 9 Vahl.):

procidere,

Sen. Contr. 7, 17, 12:

ad genua se alicui submittere,

Suet. Tib. 20; cf.:

genua amplexus genibusque volutans Haerebat,

Verg. A. 3, 607:

atqui pol hodie non feres, ni genua confricantur,

i. e. be clasped in earnest entreaty, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 80; so,

fricare,

ib. 88:

nunc tibi amplectimur genua egentes opum,

id. Rud. 1, 5, 16; cf.:

exurgite a genibus,

id. ib. v. 22: advolvi, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 311; Tac. A. 1, 13 fin.; 6, 49; 15, 71;

for which: genibus se advolvere or advolvi,

Liv. 8, 37 fin.; 28, 34, 4; Vell. 2, 80 fin.:

nixi genibus ab senatu petierunt, ne, etc.,

Liv. 43, 2, 2:

muta metu terram genibus summissa petebat,

Lucr. 1, 92:

corde et genibus tremit,

Hor. C. 1, 23, 8:

jus imperiumque Phraates Caesaris accepit genibus minor,

i. e. kneeling, beseeching, id. Ep. 1, 12, 28; Vulg. Phil. 2, 10 saep.:

genu ponere,

to bow the knee, Curt. 4, 6, 28; so,

alicui,

id. 8, 7, 13:

genu flectere, Hier. in. Eph. 3, 14: inflexo genu adorare aliquem,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 410:

nixi genibus,

on bended knees, Liv. 43, 2, 2:

per tua genua te opsecro,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 31:

genua incerare deorum,

i. e. to attach to the statues of the gods wax tablets with prayers written on them, Juv. 10, 55.—

Transf., of plants, a knot, joint, usually called geniculum:

a genibus (ferulae) exeuntia folia,

Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123.

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bucca (not buccha), ae, f. [kindred [p. 254] with buzô, bukanê; Fr. bouche].

The cheek (puffed or filled out in speaking, eating, etc.; diff. from genae, the side of the face, the cheeks, and from mala, the upper part of the cheek under the eyes; v. Plin. 11, 37, 57, § 156 sqq.; mostly in plur.; class.): buccam implere, Cato ap. Gell. 2, 22, 29:

sufflare buccas,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 42:

inflare,

id. ib. 5, 6, 7:

rumpere buccas,

to write bombast, Pers. 5, 13:

sufflare buccis,

Mart. 3, 17, 4.—In violent anger (cf. in Gr. phusan tas gnathous, deina phusan, etc.): quin illis Juppiter ambas Iratus buccas inflet, etc., * Hor. S. 1, 1, 21:

pictus Gallus... distortus, ejectā linguā, buccis fluentibus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266; id. Red. in Sen. 6, 13:

fluentes pulsataeque buccae,

id. Pis. 11, 25 B. and K.: purpurissatae ( rouged), Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 35.—In blowing the fire:

buccā foculum excitat,

Juv. 3, 262 al. —Hence,

Dicere (scribere) quod or quidquid in buccam venit, a colloq. phrase, to speak ( write) whatever comes uppermost, Cic. Att. 1, 12, 4; 7, 10 fin.; 14, 7, 2; Mart. 12, 24, 5.—

Also ellipt.: garrimus quidquid in buccam,

Cic. Att. 12, 1, 2.—

Meton.

One who fills his cheeks in speaking, a declaimer, bawler:

Curtius et Matho buccae,

Juv. 11, 34 (jactanticuli, qui tantum buccas inflant et nihil dicunt, Schol.); cf.:

bucca loquax vetuli cinoedi,

Mart. 1, 42, 13:

homo durae buccae,

Petr. 43, 3; so of a trumpeter:

notaeque per oppida buccae,

Juv. 3, 35.—

One who stuffs out his cheeks in eating, a parasite, Petr. 64, 12.—

A mouthful:

bucca panis,

Petr. 44, 2; Mart. 7, 20, 8; 10, 5, 5.—

Transf.

From men to animals;

of croaking frogs,

Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 173.—

In gen., a cavity; of the knee-joint, Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 250.

bucca (not buccha), ae, f. [kindred [p. 254] with buzô, bukanê; Fr. bouche].

The cheek (puffed or filled out in speaking, eating, etc.; diff. from genae, the side of the face, the cheeks, and from mala, the upper part of the cheek under the eyes; v. Plin. 11, 37, 57, § 156 sqq.; mostly in plur.; class.): buccam implere, Cato ap. Gell. 2, 22, 29:

sufflare buccas,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 42:

inflare,

id. ib. 5, 6, 7:

rumpere buccas,

to write bombast, Pers. 5, 13:

sufflare buccis,

Mart. 3, 17, 4.—In violent anger (cf. in Gr. phusan tas gnathous, deina phusan, etc.): quin illis Juppiter ambas Iratus buccas inflet, etc., * Hor. S. 1, 1, 21:

pictus Gallus... distortus, ejectā linguā, buccis fluentibus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266; id. Red. in Sen. 6, 13:

fluentes pulsataeque buccae,

id. Pis. 11, 25 B. and K.: purpurissatae ( rouged), Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 35.—In blowing the fire:

buccā foculum excitat,

Juv. 3, 262 al. —Hence,

Dicere (scribere) quod or quidquid in buccam venit, a colloq. phrase, to speak ( write) whatever comes uppermost, Cic. Att. 1, 12, 4; 7, 10 fin.; 14, 7, 2; Mart. 12, 24, 5.—

Also ellipt.: garrimus quidquid in buccam,

Cic. Att. 12, 1, 2.—

Meton.

One who fills his cheeks in speaking, a declaimer, bawler:

Curtius et Matho buccae,

Juv. 11, 34 (jactanticuli, qui tantum buccas inflant et nihil dicunt, Schol.); cf.:

bucca loquax vetuli cinoedi,

Mart. 1, 42, 13:

homo durae buccae,

Petr. 43, 3; so of a trumpeter:

notaeque per oppida buccae,

Juv. 3, 35.—

One who stuffs out his cheeks in eating, a parasite, Petr. 64, 12.—

A mouthful:

bucca panis,

Petr. 44, 2; Mart. 7, 20, 8; 10, 5, 5.—

Transf.

From men to animals;

of croaking frogs,

Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 173.—

In gen., a cavity; of the knee-joint, Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 250.

perna, ae, f., = perna. a haunch or ham together with the leg.

Lit.

Of men: is (i. e. his, militibus) pernas succidit, Enn. ap. Fest. pp. 304 and 305 (Ann. v. 279 Vahl.) (for which, in Liv. 22, 51: succisis feminibus poplitibusque).—

Of animals, esp. of swine, a thigh-bone, with the meat upon it to the knee-joint, a leg of pork, a ham or gammon of bacon:

addito ungulam de pernā,

Cato, R. R. 158; 162:

frigida,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 25:

praeter olus fumosae cum pede pernae,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 117; Mart. 10, 48, 17:

aprina,

Apic. 8, 1: ossa ex acetabulis pernarum. Plin. 28, 11, 49, § 179; Stat. S. 4, 9, 34.—

Transf., of things of a similar shape.

A sea-mussel:

pernae concharum generis,

Plin. 32, 11, 54, § 154.—

A part of the body of a tree sticking to its suckers when pulled off: stolones cum pernā suā avelluntur, Plin. 17, 10, 13, § 67.

gĕnĭcŭlum, i, n. dim. [genu], a little knee, a knee.

Lit. (ante- and postclass.):

pueris in geniculis alligare serperastra,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 11 Müll.:

de geniculis adorare,

Tert. Cor. Mil. 3:

dissolutio geniculorum,

Vulg. Nah. 2, 10.—

Transf., a knot or joint on the stalk of a plant, Plin. 26, 11, 71, § 117; 18, 7, 10, § 56.