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|lshtext=<b>perna</b>: ae, f., = [[πέρνα]]>.<br /><b>I</b> a [[haunch]] or [[ham]] [[together]] [[with]] the [[leg]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of men: is (i. e. his, militibus) pernas succidit, Enn. ap. Fest. pp. 304 and 305 (Ann. v. 279 Vahl.) (for [[which]], in Liv. 22, 51: succisis feminibus poplitibusque).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of animals, esp. of [[swine]], a [[thigh]]-[[bone]], [[with]] the [[meat]] [[upon]] it to the [[knee]]-[[joint]], a [[leg]] of [[pork]], a [[ham]] or gammon of bacon: addito ungulam de pernā, [[Cato]], R. R. 158; 162: [[frigida]], Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 25: [[praeter]] [[olus]] fumosae cum pede pernae, Hor. S. 2, 2, 117; Mart. 10, 48, 17: aprina, Apic. 8, 1: ossa ex acetabulis pernarum. Plin. 28, 11, 49, § 179; Stat. S. 4, 9, 34.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of things of a [[similar]] [[shape]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[sea]]-[[mussel]]: pernae concharum generis, Plin. 32, 11, 54, § 154.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[part]] of the [[body]] of a [[tree]] sticking to its suckers [[when]] pulled [[off]]: stolones cum pernā suā avelluntur, Plin. 17, 10, 13, § 67.
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