The corpus record — Latin

quadrantal

quadrantal · n

A liquid measure containing eight

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

quā^drantal — Lewis & Short

quā^drantal, ālis, n.quadrantalis.

I A liquid measure containing eight congii, a quadrantal, Cato ap. Fest. p. 258, 20 Müll.; id. R. R. 57, 2; Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 15; Plin. 14, 14, 16, § 95.—

II A die, cube, Gell. 1, 20, 3.

In the wild

quadrantali Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.30.p4
quadrantal Ausonius, Griphus Ternarii numeri 1.46
quadrantalibus Cato, De agri cultura 112
quadrántal Plautus, Curculio 1.2

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.