The corpus record — Latin

tardĭgĕmŭlus

tardĭgĕmŭlus · adj

slow-moaning

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What it meant

tardĭgĕmŭlus — Lewis & Short

tardĭgĕmŭlus (tardĭng-), a, um, adj.tardus-gemo,

I slow-moaning: tardingemulo senio oppressus, Laev. ap. Gell. 19, 7, 3: tardigenulo, i. e. tardigrado (cf.: tarda trementi Genua labant, Verg. A. 5, 431).

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.