canna

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

canna, ae, f., = κάννα,

I a reed , cane (less freq. than harundo), Col. 7, 9, 7; 4, 32, 3: palustris, Ov. M. 4, 298: tremulae, id. ib. 6, 326 al.—

II Transf., any thing made of reed.

A A reed-pipe , flute , Ov. M. 2, 682; 11, 171; Sil. 7, 439.—

B A small vessel , gondola , Juv. 5, 89; cf. Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 21; 7, 56. 57, § 206.—

C Canna gutturis. in later medical writers, the windpipe , Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 16, 97; id. Tard. 2, 12, 137.

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