The corpus record — Latin

trifidus

trifidus · adj

cleft

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

trĭfĭdus — Lewis & Short

trĭfĭdus, a, um, adj.ter-findo,

I cleft or cloven into three parts, three-cleft, threeforked (poet. and mostly post-Aug.): hasta (Neptuni), Val. Fl. 1, 641; cf.: cuspis Neptuni, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 181: flamma, i. e. lightning, Ov. M. 2, 325; cf. ardores, Val. Fl. 6, 53: viae Phocaeae, i. e. cross-roads, Sen. Oedip. 772; cf. Phocis, Stat. Th. 1, 64: lingua serpentis, Sen. Med. 687; cf.: motus linguae, Sil. 6, 222: rostrum prorae, id. 6, 358: Sicania, i. e. triangular, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 203.

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