The word genuflect refers to the act of kneeling, Latin Genu flexed literally "bend the knee "
In our language, one of the words derived from genu-is genuine : comes from an ancient custom from the Etruscans, inherited by Romans, for which a father would to his newborn son on the knee, as a way of saying that he recognized as his own, or declare genuine or legitimate
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