antemna

antemna (antenna), ae, f., die Segelstange, die Rahe, antemnas, proram, malos, Lucr.: antemnas ad malos destinare, Caes.: demittere partem quasi tertiam antemnas, Sall. fr.: antemnas demittere ad medium malum, Auct. b. Alex.: effugere hibernas demissā antemnā procellas, Ov.: subnectere velum antemnis, Ov.: cornua antemnarum obvertere, Verg.: malos antemnasque de nave in navem traicere, Liv.: antemnas demere, Auct. b. Alex.: antemnas ruere, Plaut.: malum et antemnam (invenit) Daedalus, Plin.

antemna [CL] , sailyard. b halyard or cable. c hoisting tackle. ~a, seglgaerd GlC A 588; ~e, waede Ib. 587; antemnas ‥ solvens de parte rudentum Aldh. VirgV 2808; antenna, segelgyrd Ælf. Gl.; laxis fastigia spumea verrunt / otius antemnis pelagi Frith. 338; antemne gravidus stipes roburque volatus / sustinet V. Ed. Conf. 40v; carbasus a malo profluxerat et fluctibus jam exsaturata antennas deducebat W. Cant. Mir. Thom. IV 14; quendam virorum ad ~am sullevandam ‥ per mali fastigia sursum dirigunt R. Cold. Cuthb. 32; s1218 quatuor malos et totidem antempnas erexerunt in illis [cogonibus] M. Par. Maj. III 37.  b antempne sunt corde quasi ‘ante amnem’ posite, quarum superiores extremitates cornua dicuntur Neckam Ut. 115; hec ~e, gret cabyls, ‥ hec ~is, a hedrope WW.  c 1449 pro antempna ad trahendos lapides in campanile DocCOx 326 (cf. Building in Eng. 326).

1 antemna, æ, f. , antenne de navire : Cæs. G. 3, 14, 6 ; 3, 14, 7 ; Liv. 30, 10, etc.

antemna or antenna ae, f

• ante + TA-, TEN-, a ship's yard: antemnas ad malos destinare, Cs.: antemnae gemunt, H.: cornua antemnarum, V.