covinnus

Latin

Alternative forms

• covīnus

Etymology

From a Celtic language; compare Welsh cywain (“bear, convey”).

Noun

covinnus m (genitive covinnī); second declension

1. A war chariot of the Britons and Belgae

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	covinnus	covinnī
genitive	covinnī	covinnōrum
dative	covinnō	covinnīs
accusative	covinnum	covinnōs
ablative	covinnō	covinnīs
vocative	covinne	covinnī

Further reading

• “covinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• covinnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.