volnus

Latin

Noun

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

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

	singular	plural
nominative	volnus	volnera
genitive	volneris	volnerum
dative	volnerī	volneribus
accusative	volnus	volnera
ablative	volnere	volneribus
vocative	volnus	volnera

References

• “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.