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cornua

cornua is a Latin form of cornu, meaning “horn; tip, end; wing (of an army)”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun or nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 289 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.88: … in dextro cornu erant collocatae. Has firmissimas se habere Pompeius existimabat. Reliquas inter aciem mediam cornuaque interiecerat numeroque cohortes ex expleverat. Haec erant milia XLV, evocatorum circiter duo, quae ex bene …

Ovid, Amores 3.6.35: Cornua si tua nunc ubi sint, Acheloe, requiram,

All forms of cornu (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.