geniculum

Borrowed from Latin geniculum.

geniculum (plural genicula)

1. A small genu, or angular knee-like structure, especially (anatomy) a sharp knee-like bend in a small structure or organ.

• geniculus

From genū (“knee”) + -culum (diminutive nominal suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡɛˈnɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒeˈniː.ku.lum]

geniculum n (genitive geniculī); second declension

1. diminutive of genū:
   1. (literally) little knee, knee
   2. (transferred sense, botany) knot or joint on the stalk of a plant

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Late Latin: genuculum (see there for further descendants)

• “geniculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "geniculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “geniculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.