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Cannas

Cannas is a Latin form of Canna, meaning “reed; (Cannae) Cannae, site of Hannibal's victory in 216 BC”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 61 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.171: Pana iubet Tmolus citharae submittere cannas.

Martial, Epigrammata 6.19.5: Tu Cannas Mithridaticumque bellum

All forms of Canna (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.