колено

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kolěno.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔlɛnɔ]

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колено • (koleno) n (plural колена, diminutive коленце)

1. knee
2. phylum
3. generation, descent

• колѣ́но (kolě́no) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Inherited from Old East Slavic колѣно (kolěno), from Proto-Slavic *kolěno. Cognate with Ukrainian коліно (kolino), Bulgarian коляно (koljano), Slovene koléno, Czech koleno, Polish kolano; compare Lithuanian kelis (“knee”), Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “member of the body”), which may be from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“to bend, crooked”). Or from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn, wheel”), according to Pokorny.

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈlʲenə]

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коле́но • (koléno) n inan (genitive коле́на, nominative plural коле́ни, genitive plural коле́ней, relational adjective коле́нный, diminutive коле́нка)

1. (anatomy) knee
   • 1905, Фёдор Сологуб [Fyodor Sologub], chapter XVIII, in Мелкий бес; English translation from John Cournos and Richard Aldington, transl., The Little Demon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916:

     Гудаевский сложи́л ему́ из свои́х дли́нных па́льцев дли́нный нос, а пото́м подда́л в во́здухе коле́ном, сло́вно выта́лкивая го́стя.

     Gudajevskij složíl jemú iz svoíx dlínnyx pálʹcev dlínnyj nos, a potóm poddál v vózduxe kolénom, slóvno vytálkivaja góstja.

     Goudayevsky put his fingers to his nose at him, then made a motion with his knee as if he were kicking him out.

2. (in the plural) lap

The irregular plural of this sense of the word is due to the fact that the ending -и was an old neuter dual form.

• коленопреклоне́ние (kolenopreklonénije)
• коленопреклонённый (kolenopreklonjónnyj)

коле́но • (koléno) n inan (genitive коле́на, nominative plural коле́на, genitive plural коле́н)

1. bend (in a river, etc.)
2. (music) figure, part, passage, turn (in music or dance)
3. generation, branch
4. (biblical) tribe

   коле́но Да́ново ― koléno Dánovo ― the tribe of Dan

коле́но • (koléno) n inan (genitive коле́на, nominative plural коле́нья, genitive plural коле́ньев)

1. (engineering) joint, elbow, crank (pipes, tubing, rods)
2. (botany) joint, node

The irregular plural of this sense of the word was originally a collective form.

• Isačenko, A. V. (1954‒1965) Грамматический строй русского языка в сопоставлении с словацким: Морфология: I‒II [Grammatical Structure of the Russian Language in Comparison to Slovak. Morphology. Pr. 1 & 2] (in Russian), Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences; ‎^[1]2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Сultures, 2003, →ISBN, page 79

• ко̀љено (Ijekavian)
• kolino (Ikavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kolěno.

• IPA^(key): /kǒleno/
• Hyphenation: ко‧ле‧но

ко̀лено n (Latin spelling kòleno)

1. knee
2. joint, bent
3. knot
4. knuckle
5. angle
6. generation, descent
7. family, race, house

• “колено”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025