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tympana

tympana is a Latin form of tympanum, meaning “drum, tambourine”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun or vocative plural neuter noun or accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 45 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.105: … t. Pergami in occultis ac reconditis templi, quo praeter sacerdotes adire fas non est, quae Graeci appellant, tympana sonuerunt. Item Trallibus in templo Victoriae, ubi Caesaris statuam consecraverant, palma per eos dies inter …

Vergil, Aeneid 9.619: Tympana vos buxusque vocat Berecyntia Matris

All forms of tympanum (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.