Learned borrowing fromLatingeniculātus(“with bended knee”), fromgeniculum(“little knee”) +-ātus(participial adjective-forming suffix), see-ate(adjective-forming suffix).
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geniculate (notcomparable)
- (anatomy, botany)Bentabruptly, with the structure of aknee.
ageniculate stem; ageniculate ganglion; ageniculate twin crystal
- Havingkneelikejoints; able tobend at anabruptangle.
- (anatomy) Relating to ageniculate nucleus.
FromLatingeniculātus (more atetymology 1), see-ate(verb-forming suffix).
geniculate (third-person singular simple presentgeniculates,present participlegeniculating,simple past and past participlegeniculated)
- (obsolete, rare, transitive) To formjoints orknots on.
1657, Jean de Renou,A Medicinal Dispensatory:a ferulaceous caul, of two Cubits heighth,geniculated, and hard
- “geniculate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- “geniculate”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
- “geniculate”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
geniculāte
- vocativemasculinesingular ofgeniculātus
