The corpus record — Latin

quā^drĭfārĭam

in four ways

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What it meant

1. quadrifariam — de Vaan

quadrifariam 'in four ways' (Varro+), multijariam 'in many places' (Cato+) Pit. *X-/?o- 'having X parts' » *X-pasjo- 'having X parts, in X ways'. PIE *-dhhrcK IE cognates: Skt. dvidka [adv.] 'twofold, in two ways', tridha 'threefold'. Lat -Jariam has been derived from^an 'to say' as -Jas-io- 'having η utterances', but the alleged semantic development to in η ways' is obscure. Much more attractive is the solution … — [de Vaan, s.v. quadrifariam, p. 216]

2. quā^drĭfārĭam — Lewis & Short

quā^drĭfārĭam, adv.quattuor.

I Fourfold, into four parts (class.; not in Cic. or Cæs.): quadrifariam aliquid dispertire, Varr. ap. Non. 92, 15: conjurati quadrifariam se diviserunt, Liv. 38, 1: quadrifariam diviso exercitu, id. 4, 22, 5; Suet. Vit. 13.—

II In a fourfold manner, Dig. 38, 10, 10, § 16; cf. quadrifariter.

Where it came from

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

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