The corpus record — Latin

quadrifidus

quadrifidus · adj

four-cleft

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Where it lives

Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

quā^drĭfĭdus — Lewis & Short

quā^drĭfĭdus, a, um, adj.quattuorfindo,

I four-cleft, split into four parts, quadrifid (poet.).

I Lit.: quadrifidas sudes, Verg. G. 2, 25: quadrifidam quercum Scindebat, was cleaving in four, id. A. 7, 509: quadrifidā trabe fingere tela Jovis, Val. Fl. 1, 663: ridicae, Col. 4, 33, 4.—

II Transf., in gen., divided into four parts: labor, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 268.

In the wild

quadrifida Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.663
quadrifidasque Vergil, Georgicon 2.25
quadrifidas Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.33.4
quadrifidam Vergil, Aeneid 7.509

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.