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pennĭger, ĕra, ĕrum, adj., or pinnĭ-ger [penna-gero], feathered, winged.

  1. I. Lit. (class.): genus animantium, Cic. Univ. 10: pinniger rex apum, Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 48.
  2. II. Transf. (poet.): sagittae, Sil. 3, 375.

pennĭpŏtens (pinn-; cf. Don. p. 1748 P.), entis, adj. [penna-potens], able to fly, winged (poet.): pennipotentum, Lucr. 2, 878; 5, 789.

(pinnĭcillum, i, n., for penicillum. Pall. Mart. 1.)

pinnĭger, gĕra, gĕrum, adj. [1. pinnagero], feather-bearing, i. e. feathered, winged.

  1. I. Lit.: pinnigero, non armigero in corpore tela exercentur, i. e. against birds, Att. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 33, 1 (Trag. Rel. p. 176 Rib.): amor, Lucr. 5, 1074.
  2. II. Transf, having fins, finny: piscis, Ov. M. 13, 963; Coripp. Johann. 4, 981.

pinnĭpŏtens, v. pennipotens.

pinnĭrăpus, i, m. [1. pinna-rapio], a peak-snatcher, i. e. a gladiator, Juv. 3, 158; cf.: pinnirapos autem dicit, lanistas ex habitu gladiatorum, quia post mortem retiarii pinnam, id est manicam rapit, ut ostendat populo se vicisse, Vet. Schol. ad loc.