knee

CEFRA1

/niː/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The joint between the upper and lower parts of the leg.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    In birds:, The tarsal joint, uniting the tarsometatarsus and the tibiotarsus (homologous to the human ankle).

Examples

  • I'm afraid I have water in my knee joint.

  • The boy fell and scraped his knee.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /kniː/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.

  2. In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.

  3. In birds:

More examples

In context

  • He injured his knee playing hockey.

  • Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.

  • When I blocked her from leaving, she kneed me in the groin.

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Origin

noun

English knee Inherited from Middle English kne, from Old English cnēow, from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéw-o-m, a thematic derivative of *ǵónu. See also West Frisian knibbel, Low German Knee, Knie, Dutch knie, German Knie, Danish knæ, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kne, Swedish knä; also Hittite 𒄀𒉡 (genu), Latin genū, Tocharian A kanweṃ (dual), Tocharian B kenī, Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), Welsh glin (“knee”), Old Armenian ծունր (cunr), Avestan 𐬲𐬥𐬎𐬨 (žnum), Sanskrit जानु (jā́nu). The obsolete plural kneen is from Middle English kneen, knen, kneon, kneuwene.