pennatus

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

pennātus (pinn-), a, um, adj. [penna],

I furnished with wings , winged (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): hic Jovis altisoni subito pennata (al. pinnata) satelles, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 47, 106 apes, Plin. 11, 1, 1, § 1: serpentes, Ov. M. 7, 350: pennati equi, quos pegasos vocant, Plin. 8, 21, 30, § 72: Zephyrus, Lucr. 5, 738: ferrum, an arrow , Plin. 34, 14, 39, § 138.—Subst.: pennāta , ōrum, n. (sc. animalia), winged creatures , birds : pennatorum infecunda sunt, quae aduncos habent ungues, Plin. 10, 52, 73, § 143.—Prov.: Frustra jacitur rete ante oculos pennatorum, Vulg. Prov. 1, 17.— Comp. : voto pennatior, Auct. Itin. Alex. 69.—

II Transf.: pennatas impennatasque agnas in Saliari carmine spicas significat cum aristis, et alias sine aristis ... (Aelius oves veteres et) agnas novas voluit intellegi, Paul. ex Fest. p. 211 Müll.

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