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
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.