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comae

comae is a Latin form of coma, meaning “hair; foliage”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 96 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 1.403: ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem

Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.12e.1: Sunt et externae mortes dignae adnotatu. qualis in primis Comae, quem ferunt maximi latronum ducis Cleonis fratrem fuisse: is enim ad P. Rupilium consulem Hennam, quam praed …

All forms of coma (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.