liburnas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →liburna, liburnae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
- Geography:
- Balkans
light, fast-sailing warship; (Liburian/Illyrian/Croatian galley/brigantine);
acc. pl.
Examples
Satura III
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...cedente vehetur dives et ingenti curret super ora Liburna atque obiter leget aut scribet vel dormiet intus; namque..."Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...parum comperi, nisi quod signum ipsum in modum liburnae figuratum docet advectam religionem. Ceterum nec cohibere parietibus deos..."
