The corpus record — Latin

quadrupedus

quadrupedus · adj

going on four feet

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 19 · 2.41/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Naturalis Historia 51 · 1.29/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Metamorphoses 6 · 1.12/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
De Rerum Natura 4 · 0.82/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quā^drŭpĕdus — Lewis & Short

quā^drŭpĕdus (quā^drĭpĕdus, a, um, adj.quadrupes,

Front. ad M. Anton. Or. 1),

I going on four feet, galloping (postAug.): quadrupedo gradu repentes, on all fours, Amm. 14, 2, 2: quadripedo cursu, on a gallop, Front. 1, 1.— Absol.: quadrupedo currere, to gallop, Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 2, 1.

In the wild

quadripedum Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.536
quadrupedum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.2.5
Quadripedum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.15.p5
quadrupedis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.2.1
quadripedis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.1
quadrupedi Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.5.14

6 of 102 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.