puppes
puppes is a Latin form of puppis, meaning “stern (of a ship); ship”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.
Found 76 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.
Where it is used
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.13.2: prorae admodum erectae atque item puppes, ad magnitudinem fluctuum tempestatumque accommodatae;
All forms of puppis (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.