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capellae

capellae is a Latin form of capella, meaning “she-goat; meteor type”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Eclogues 1.75: Ite meae, felix quondam pecus, ite capellae.

Ovid, Fasti 5.113: nascitur Oleniae signum pluviale Capellae;

All forms of capella (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.