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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	covinnus	covinnī
Genitive	covinnī	covinnōrum
Dative	covinnō	covinnīs
Accusative	covinnum	covinnōs
Ablative	covinnō	covinnīs
Vocative	covinne	covinnī

References

• “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.