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vexilla

vexilla is a Latin form of vexillum, meaning “flag, banner; a detachment”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun or vocative plural neuter noun or accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Tacitus, Agricola 35.4: … at et arcessendas plerique legiones admonebant, promptior in spem et firmus adversis, dimisso equo pedes ante vexilla constitit.

Suetonius, Nero 13.1: … a fori templa armatis cohortibus, curuli residens apud rostra triumphantis habitu inter signa militaria atque uexilla.

All forms of vexillum (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.