knee Copy link Outline 1. gĕnu, ūs, n.2. meton. poples, ĭtis, m. (strictly, the ham • knee: 1. gĕnu, ūs, n.: the k.-joint, genus commissura, Plin. 11, 45, 103: to fall on one's k.s, genu (genua) ponere, Petr. 133; with dat. of person in honour of whom, Curt. 8, 7, ad fin.: to sink upon one's k.s, in g. procumbere, id. 9, 5, med.: to fight on one's k.s, de genu pugnare, Sen. Prov. 2, 4: to fall at any one's k.s (in entreaty), se ad g. alicujus projicere, Auct. B. Afr. 89; advolvi, Tac. Ann. 113 (in best writers usu. ad pedes, etc.). Dimin. gĕnĭcŭlum: of the k.s of children, Varr. L. L. 9, 5, § 11. 2. meton. poples, ĭtis, m. (strictly, the ham: poet.): on bended k., duplicato p., Virg. Aen. 12, 927.