antenna (also antemna), ae, f. [akin to ἀνατείνω, acc. to Doed.],
a sail-yard : funes, qui antemnas ad malos destinabant, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: malis antemnisque de nave in navem trajectis, Liv. 30, 10 Weissenb.: antemnae gemunt, * Hor. C. 1, 14, 6: Effugit hibernas demissa antemna procellas, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 9: cornua velatarum antemnarum, the ends of the sail-yards covered with the sails , Verg. A. 3, 549.—As pars pro toto = velum: pinus ... antemnis apta ferendis, Ov. M. 13, 783.