The corpus record — Latin

pennatus

pennatus · adj

furnished with wings

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

pennātus — Lewis & Short

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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