cnemid
nounEtymology From Ancient Greek κνημῖδος (knēmîdos), genitive of κνημῑ́ς (knēmī́s, “shin, calve”). See also cnemis.
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A greave: a bronze shin protector worn in combat by Ancient Greek warriors.
- But at times it had been thought that they could have been variations on the cnemid, the bronze shin-protector worn by Greek warriors in combat.1979, Jacques Briard, translated by Mary Turton, The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe: From the Megaliths to the Celts, Routledge, page 106:
- The fresco battle painting from Pylos, Greece, shows warriors wearing cnemids for protection.2008, Jean Guilaine, Jean Zammit, translated by Melanie Hersey, The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory, Wiley, page 205:
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- This helmet and the pair of greaves (shin guard), or cnemids, complementing it belong to the key elements of a panoply, the set of offensive and defensive arms that a Greek warrior would have used in combat.c. 2017, “Helmet of the Corinthian Type and Pair of Greaves”, in Metropolitan Museum of Art:
- Related terms
- cnemis