The corpus record — Latin

tardigradus

tardigradus · adj

slow-paced

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Where it lives

De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k

What it meant

tardĭgrădus — Lewis & Short

tardĭgrădus, a, um, adj.tardusgradior,

I slow-paced, tardy-paced: quadrupes, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133 (Trag. v. 2 Rib.).

In the wild

tardigrada Tertullian, De Pallio 3.p2
tardigrada Cicero, De Divinatione 2.133

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.