Antenna, antennæ. Plin. The crosse peece whereunto the sayle is fastened: the saile yarde.Antennæ gemina cornua.Stat.The two endes.Antennam dimictere.Ouid.Disiectare antennas. Lucret. Gemunt antennæ. Horat. Antennis subnectere velum.Ouid.Pressæ antennæ. Sened. Velatæ antennæ. Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Antemnae, ārum (sing. Antemna, Cato. Orig. ap. Prisc. p. 716 P.; Sil. 8, 367), f., a very ancient town of the Sabines, so called from its situation on the river (ante amnem; cf. Interamna) Anio, where it empties into the Tiber, Varr. L. L. 5, 28 Müll.; Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 631; cf. Plin. 3, 5, 9, 68; and Mann. Ital. 1, 662.—Hence, An-temnās, ātis, adj., belonging to Antemnœ; Antemnātes, ium, m., its inhabitants, Liv. 1, 9, 10.
antenna (also antemna), ae, f. [akin to a)natei/nw, acc. to Doed.], a sail-yard: funes, qui antemnas ad malos destinabant, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: malis antemnisque de nave in navem trajectis, Liv. 30, 10 Weissenb.: antemnae gemunt, Hor. C. 1, 14, 6: Effugit hibernas demissa antemna procellas, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 9: cornua velatarum antemnarum,
the ends of the sail-yards covered with the sails
, Verg. A. 3, 549.—As pars pro toto = velum: pinus ... antemnis apta ferendis, Ov. M. 13, 783.