The corpus record — Latin

quadrifluvium

quadrifluvium · n

a flowing into four parts

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Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

quā^drĭflŭvĭum, ii, n.quattuor-fluvius,

I a flowing into four parts, in four directions: ima abietis pars, cum excisa quadrifluviis disparatur, i. e. into four parts, according to the course of the veins, Vitr. 2, 9, 7.

In the wild

quadrifluviis Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.9.7

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.