genuflect

Significado (Inglés)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To bend the knee, as in servitude.
  2. (intransitive) To briefly enter a position that touches one knee to the ground in a manner that is typically associated with formal homage or religious worship.
  3. (figuratively, intransitive) To behave in a servile manner; to grovel.

Conceptos

Traducciones

sich knien

sich niederknien

sich hinknien

إركع

προσκυνώ

se mettre à genoux

Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈd͡ʒɛn.jʊ.flɛkt/
Etimología (Inglés)

PIE word *ǵónu From around 1620–1630 from Medieval Latin genūflectō (“I bend the knee”) equivalent to the Latin genū (“knee”) + flectō (“to bend”).

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