alae

alae is a Latin form of ala, meaning “wing; armpit; wing (of an army), squadron of cavalry”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 75 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Officiis 2.45: … ellum, cuius altera pars sceleris nimium habuit, altera felicitatis parum. Quo tamen in bello cum te Pompeius alae alteri praefecisset, magnam laudem et a summo viro et ab exercitu consequebare equitando, iaculando, omni mil …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.4.6: Item in libro sexto hoc scriptum est: Alae dictae exercitus equitum ordines, quod circum legiones dextra sinistraque tamquam alae in avium corporibus locabantur. In legione sunt centuriae sexaginta, manipuli triginta, cohortes decem.

All forms of ala (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.