geniculate

Learned borrowing from Latin geniculātus (“with bended knee”), from geniculum (“little knee”) +‎ -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

geniculate (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, botany) Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee.

   a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal

2. Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
3. (anatomy) Relating to a geniculate nucleus.

From Latin geniculātus (more at etymology 1), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): (adjective) /dʒɪˈnɪk.jʊl.ɪt/, (verb) /dʒɪˈnɪk.jʊ.leɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): (adjective) /d͡ʒəˈnɪk.jəl.ɪt/, (verb) /d͡ʒəˈnɪk.jəˌleɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlɪt, -ɪkjʊleɪt

geniculate (third-person singular simple present geniculates, present participle geniculating, simple past and past participle geniculated)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To form joints or knots on.
   • 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:

     a ferulaceous caul, of two Cubits heighth, geniculated, and hard

• geniculated
• geniculation

• lateral geniculate nucleus
• medial geniculate nucleus
• genuflect

• “geniculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “geniculate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “geniculate”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡɛ.nɪ.kʊˈɫaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒe.ni.kuˈlaː.t̪e]

geniculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of geniculātus