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catenae

catenae is a Latin form of catena, meaning “chain, fetter”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 36 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.130: … eter ceteras Sicilia detulit; lacrimis ego huc, non gloria inductus accessi, ne falsa damnatio, ne carcer, ne catenae, ne verbera, ne secures, ne cruciatus sociorum, ne sanguis innocentium, ne denique etiam exsanguia corpora mo …

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.5.8: Per hoc minui studium suum existimans Paulus, ut erat in complicandis negotiis artifex dirus, unde ei Catenae indutum est cognomentum, vicarium ipsum eos quibus praeerat adhuc defensantem dfensantem , ad sortem periculo …

All forms of catena (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.