pinnis

pinnis is a Latin form of penna, meaning “feather; wing”.

It can also be a form of pinna, “feather; wing; battlement”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 62 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.87: … a quidem ipsa quisquam caret. de mortuis loquor, qui nulli sunt: nos, qui sumus, num aut cornibus caremus aut pinnis? ecquis id dixerit? certe nemo. quid ita? quia, cum id non habeas quod tibi nec usu nec natura sit aptum, non …

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.