The corpus record — Latin

quā^drĭēris

quā^drĭēris · f

a vessel having four banks of oars

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What it meant

quā^drĭēris — Lewis & Short

quā^drĭēris (quā^t-), is, f.vox hibr. from quattuor and a)/rw, analog. to trih/rhs,

I a vessel having four banks of oars, a quadrireme (post-class.): EX CLASS. PR. MIS. QVADRIERE FIDE, Inscr. Murat. 876, 3: quatrieris, Not. Tir. p. 177.

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.