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κνήμη

kneme

part between knee and ankle, leg, shank

Appears 32 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

κνήμη, Dor. κνάμα [νᾱ], ἡ, A. part between knee and ankle, leg, shank, Il. 4.147, Od. 8.135, Hdt. 6.75, 125, 7.75, E. Ph. 1394, etc.; of a horse, X. Eq. 1.5, 12.10: prov., ἀπωτέρω ἢ γόνυ κνάμα ‘blood is thicker than water’, Theoc. 16.18. 2. Anat., tibia, Gal. 2.774, Ruf. Onom. 123. 3. in plants, stem between two joints, Thphr. HP 9.13.5; κνήμη (v.l. μνήμου) μελίνης dub. sens. in S. Fr. 608. II. spoke of a wheel, Poll. 1.144, Eust. 598.4. (Cf. OIr. cnāim ‘bone’, OE. hamm ‘ham’.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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