The corpus record — Latin

deciduus

deciduus · adj

falling down

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Naturalis Historia 17 · 0.43/10k

What it meant

dēcĭdŭus — Lewis & Short

dēcĭdŭus, a, um, adj.1. decĭdo,

I falling down or off, deciduous (chiefly in Pliny: folia, Laber. ap. Non. 100, 10; Plin. 18, 25, 60, § 226; 16, 24, 38, § 92 (where Freund assumes decīdua, cut off, cf. Cato R. R. 5, 7, but without necessity): (ignes) decidui ad terras fulminum nomen habent, Plin. 2, 20, 18, § 82: sidera, falling, shooting stars, id. 2, 8, 6, § 28: cornua cervis, id. 11, 37, 45, § 127: testes pecori ad crura decidui, subus annexi, id. 11, 49, 110, § 263: dentes, id. 8, 3, 4, § 7.

In the wild

deciduo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p20
deciduum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.3.p5
deciduo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.25.p1
deciduo Prudentius, Cathemerina 3.79
deciduis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.3
decidua Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p3

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