The corpus record — Latin

cadivus

cadivus · adj

falling of itself

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

cădīvus — Lewis & Short

cădīvus, a, um, adj.cado (an access. form of caducus).

I Of fruit, falling of itself: mala, Plin. 15, 16, 18, § 59; 15, 17, 18, § 60.—

II In medic. lang., having the falling sickness or epilepsy, epileptic, Marc. Emp. 20.

In the wild

cadivis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.17.p1
cadiva Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.16

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.