volnus

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

volnus n (genitive volneris); third declension

  1. Alternative form of vulnus
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.286:
      “‘[...] Aut cūr haec volnera cernō?’”
      “‘Otherwise what is the meaning of these wounds I see?’”
      (Aeneas dreams that he is speaking to the dead and badly disfigured Prince Hector; figuratively, Aeneas himself feels wounded by this tragic apparition.)

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative volnus volnera
Genitive volneris volnerum
Dative volnerī volneribus
Accusative volnus volnera
Ablative volnere volneribus
Vocative volnus volnera

References[edit]

  • “volnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “volnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • volnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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