The corpus record — Latin

quā^drŭ-pĕdans

moving like a galloping horse

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What it meant

1. quadrupedans — de Vaan

quadrupedans 'moving like a galloping horse' (P1.+); tripudiare 'to perform a tripudium* (Carmen Arvale tripodare, Acc.+), tripudiurn 'ritual dance in triple time; ominous noise' (Cic.+); pedisequus 'male attendant' (PL+), pedisequa 'female attendant' (PL+);pedetemptim 'step by step' (PL+). Pit. *pod-9 *pedr 'foot'; *tri-podo- 'three-step dance'. It cognates: U pen, persi [abtsg.] cfoot' < *ped-\ O. pedu [acc.pl.?] … — [de Vaan, s.v. quadrupedans, p. 476]

2. quā^drŭ-pĕdans — Lewis & Short

quā^drŭ-pĕdans, antis,

Part., from the obsol. quadrupedo [quadrupes].

I Going on four feet, galloping (poet. and postAug.): canterius, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 34: equo juxta quadrupedante, galloping close by on horseback, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 182: sonitus, of a horse galloping, Verg. A. 8, 596.—

II Subst., a galloping horse, a steed, courser (poet.): quadrupedantum Pectora, Verg. A. 11, 614.

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.