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pinnas

pinnas is a Latin form of penna, meaning “feather; wing”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.72.4: Post eas aggerem ac vallum duodecim pedum exstruxit. Huic loricam pinnasque adiecit grandibus cervis eminentibus ad commissuras pluteorum atque aggeris, qui ascensum hostium tardarent, et turres toto opere circumdedit, quae pedes LXXX inter se distarent.

Martial, Epigrammata 3.82.9: Pinnas rubentes cuspidesque lentisci,

All forms of penna (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.