The corpus record — Latin

quadruus

quadruus · adj

fourcornered

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

Where it lives

Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k

What it meant

quā^drŭus — Lewis & Short

quā^drŭus, a, um, adj.quattuor,

I fourcornered or fourfold (post-class.): errabam riguis per quadrua compita in hortis, i. e. laid out in squares, Aus. Idyll. 14, 5: vis, fourfold, Prud. Psych. 842.

In the wild

quadrua Ausonius, Ordo Urbium Nobilium 20.13
quadrua Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.843

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.