cnemid

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English

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Etymology

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From the oblique stem of Ancient Greek κνημῐ́ς (knēmís) (see cnemis).

Noun

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cnemid (plural cnemids)

  1. A greave: a bronze shin protector worn in combat by Ancient Greek warriors.
    • 1979, Jacques Briard, translated by Mary Turton, The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe: From the Megaliths to the Celts[1], Routledge, page 106:
      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.
    • 2008, Jean Guilaine, Jean Zammit, translated by Melanie Hersey, The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory[2], Wiley, page 205:
      The fresco battle painting from Pylos, Greece, shows warriors wearing cnemids for protection.
    • c. 2017, “Helmet of the Corinthian Type and Pair of Greaves”, in Metropolitan Museum of Art[3]:
      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.
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