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tympani

tympani is a Latin form of tympanum, meaning “drum, tambourine”. It is the genitive singular neuter noun.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Seneca the Younger, Hercules Furens 470: ad non virilem tympani movit sonum,

Vitruvius, On Architecture 3.5.12: Tympani autem, quod est in fastigio, altitudo sic est facienda, uti frons coronae ab extremis cymatiis tota dimetiatu …

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.