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columbae

columbae is a Latin form of columba, meaning “dove, pigeon”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 2.516: praecipites atra ceu tempestate columbae,

Phaedrus, Fabulae 1.31.3: Columbae saepe cum fugissent miluum

All forms of columba (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.