The corpus record — Latin

caeduus

that can be cut without injury

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

caeduus, a, um,

I adj [caedo], that can be cut without injury, fit for cutting; a t. t. of agriculture, Dig. 50, 16, 30: silva, Cato, R. R. 1 fin.; Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 9; Col. 3, 3, 1; cf. natura, Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 89: fertilitas, id. 16, 37, 68, § 175; 17, 20, 32, § 141; 17, 20, 34, § 147.

In the wild

caeduae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.3.1
caeduae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.19.p2
caedua Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.277
caeduis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.17.p37
caeduo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.20.p1
caedua Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.20.p6

6 of 13 attestations shown.

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.