Meaning of ala | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a wing (appendage of an animal's body that enables it to fly)
   declension-1
2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ālum
   accusative, form-of, nominative, plural, vocative
3. the armpit (the upper and under part of the arm, where it unites with the shoulder)
   declension-1
4. shoulder blade, axilla (the hollow where the foreleg is joined to the shoulder)
   declension-1
5. the hollow where a limb joins the trunk of a tree
   declension-1
6. wings, side halls or porches, waiting areas, colonnades, side apartments (side rooms off the main room, the side apartments on the right and left of a court)
   declension-1
7. a wing (portion of an army, cavalry force (usually) deployed on an army's flank)
   declension-1
8. wings (the members of a group placed along the perimeter)
   declension-1

Equivalents

Examples

“… dum trepidant ālae, saltūsque indāgine cingunt, ….”

“[At the hunting party of Dido and Aeneas], while the beaters rush about, and encircle forest glades with net[s], ….” (Understood here as the beaters, mounted or on foot, who flush the prey and drive it toward the hunters.)

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