different between silure vs genu

English

Etymology

Latin silurus (“a sort of river fish”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (sílouros, “a very large sort of river fish”).

Noun

silure (plural silures)

1. A fish of the genus Silurus, such as the sheatfish; a siluroid.

Anagrams

• Luries, Suriel

French

Etymology

Latin sil?rus, in turn from Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ly?/

Noun

silure m (plural silures)

1. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

Synonyms

• silure glane

Further reading

• “silure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

sil?re

1. vocative singular of sil?rus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genu (“knee”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???n.ju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??i?nu/, /?d???n.(j)u/
• Rhymes: -?nju?

Noun

genu (plural genua)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) The knee.

   Hyponyms: genu valgum, genu varum

   1. A knee-like structure, in particular a bend in the corpus callosum of mammals.

Derived terms

• genual
• genu-

Related terms

• geniculate

References

• “genu”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “genu”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Egun

Latin

Alternative forms

• genum, genus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *genu, from Proto-Indo-European *?ónu. Cognates with Ancient Greek ???? (gónu, “knee; plant node”), German knie, English knee.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??e.nu?/, [???nu?] or IPA^(key): /??e.nu/, [???n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d??e.nu/, [?d????nu]
• Note: the nominative/accusative ending vowel of 4th declension neuters is etymologically expected to be short, and is stated to be so by late grammarians. A long vowel would also be expected to be subject to iambic shortening in most forms. There are only two passages that conclusively require a long scansion.

Noun

gen? n (genitive gen?s); fourth declension

1. (literally, anatomy) a knee, kneejoint, kneepan
   1. an act of kneeling or beseeching
   2. an elbow
2. (transferred sense, botany) a knot, joint

   Synonym: geniculum

Inflection

Fourth-declension noun (neuter).

A rare genitive singular form genoris is attested epigraphically.

Derived terms

• geniculum
• geniculus
• genuflecto

References

• genu in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• genu in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• genu in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• genu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.