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puppi

puppi is a Latin form of puppis, meaning “stern (of a ship); ship”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.125: … tere tamquam remis ita pinnis cursus avium levatur; basis autem trianguli, quam efficiunt grues, ea tamquam a puppi ventis adiuvatur; eaeque in tergo praevolantium colla et capita reponunt; quod quia ipse dux facere non potes …

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.