Cnidus

From the Latin Cnidus, from the Ancient Greek Κνίδος (Knídos).

Cnidus

1. Alternative spelling of Knidos.

• Cnidos, Cnidus, Gnidos, Gnidus

From the Ancient Greek Κνίδος (Knídos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈknɪ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkniː.d̪us]

Cnidus f sg (genitive Cnidī); second declension

1. Knidos (a Doric city in Caria, celebrated for its statue of Venus, the workmanship of Praxiteles)

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Cnidiī
• Cnidius

• English: Cnidus
• French: Cnide

• “Gnĭdus or Gnĭdos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Cnĭdus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 330/2.

• Cnidus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la