pignora

pignora is a Latin form of pignus, meaning “pledge, security; token, proof; (pl.) children, dear ones”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 108 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 78: … umquam esse largitor. habet a M.Marco Caelio res publica, iudices, duas accusationes vel obsides periculi vel pignora voluntatis. qua re oro obtestorque vos, iudices, ut qua in civitate paucis his diebus Sex. Clodius absolutus …

Ovid, Heroides 6.122: Pignora Lucina bina favente dedi.

All forms of pignus (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.