What does pharetra mean in Latin?

pharetra, a noun, means “quiver; a kind of sundial in the form of a quiver”.

What is the genitive of pharetra?

The genitive singular is pharetrae. pharetra is feminine, first declension.

In classical Latin, [ˈpʰa.rɛ.tra]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈfaː.re.tra].

femininequiver
Sume fidem et pharetram fies manifestus ApolloTake up string and quiver and you are Apollo manifestc. 25 BCE, Ovid, Heroides, Letter 15: "Sappho Phaoni"
broadlyfemininea kind of sundial in the form of a quiver

domus sagittārum, umerō pendet

pharetra -ae (f) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 3

thēca sagittārum

pharetra -ae (f) — in Aeneis, ch. 4

phărē^tra, ae, f., = φαρέτρα.

I. Lit., a quiver for holding arrows (poet. and late Lat.): succinctam pharetrā, Verg. A. 1, 323: nec venenatis gravida sagittis, Fusce, pharetra, Hor. C. 1, 22, 3: pharetram solvere, to undo, open, Ov. M. 5, 379: venatricis puellae (Dianae), Juv. 13, 80: in pharetrā suā abscondit me, Vulg. Isa. 49, 2; Verg. G. 2, 125; Prop. 2, 9, 10; Ov. P. 4, 13, 38; id. Am. 3, 9, 7; Val. Fl. 3, 607; Stat. Th. 4, 259 al.—

II. Transf., a kind of sundial in the form of a quiver, Vitr. 9, 8, 1.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φαρέτρα (pharétra, “quiver”).

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