The corpus record — Latin

bifidus

bifidus · adj

cleft

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. bĭfĭdus — Lewis & Short

bĭfĭdus, a, um, adj.bis-findo,

I cleft or divided into two parts (the usual form; rarer bifidatus and bifissus): bifidos relinquit Rima pedes, Ov. M. 14, 303: ridicae, Col. 4, 33, 4: lingua, Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 171: stirps, id. 17, 20, 34, § 150: cursus venarum, id. 16, 39, 76, § 195: iter, Val. Fl. 1, 570.

2. bifidus — Walde–Hofmann

bifidus, -o, -um „zwiegespalten* (seit Ov., rom.): vgl gr. &v oxidng und bi-sulcus. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bifidus, p. 137]

In the wild

bifidum Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.570
bifida Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.647
bifidosque Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.303
bifidae Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.3
bifida Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.4.p1
bifidae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.34.p1

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. bifidus (scan p. 137; entry #400).

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