The corpus record — Latin

quadrimus

quadrimus · adj

of four years

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Where it lives

Captivi 4 · 4.62/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quā^drīmus — Lewis & Short

quā^drīmus, a, um, adj.quattuor and root ghim-, him-, of Sanscr. himas, snow; cf. Gr. xiw/n, xei=ma; Lat. hiems, hibernus; hence, of four winters,

I of four years, four years old (class.): de quadrimo Catone, of Cato of Utica, when four years old, Cic. Fam. 16, 22, 1; cf.: infantem natum esse quadrimo parem, Liv. 27, 37: boves, Varr. R. R. 1, 20, 5: merum, Hor. C. 1, 9, 7: vitis, Col. 4, 16, 1: dies, a term of four years, Dig. 23, 4, 19: equae, Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 171.

In the wild

quadrimus Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.5.11
quadrimum Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.86.14
Quadrimus Suetonius, Divus Augustus 8.1
quadrimi Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.9.4
quadrimum Plautus, Captivi prologue.pr
quadrimo Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 p74

6 of 23 attestations shown.

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.