The corpus record — Latin

vadosus

vadosus · adj

full of shallows

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Where it lives

Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 1 · 0.87/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Jugurtha 1 · 0.47/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vădōsus — Lewis & Short

vădōsus, a, um, adj.vadum,

I full of shallows or fords, shallow, shoal: mare, Caes. B. C. 1, 25: amnis, Verg. A. 7, 728: Syrtes, Sall. J. 78, 2: ostium portūs, Liv. 37, 14, 7: fretum, id. 33, 17, 6: litora, Val. Max. 8, 7, ext. 1: navigatio, Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 99.—Poet.: aquae, i. e. restless, Luc. 8, 698.—Sup.: Ganges ubi vadosissimus est, Sol. 52.

In the wild

vadoso Seneca, Troades 1
vadosus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.7.10
vadosum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.22.p1
vadosum Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 p12
vadosus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8.46
vadoso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.26.p3

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uadosus (scan p. 735; entry #12274).

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