adverb
quādrifāriam
quādrifāriam (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparablefourfold, into four parts
- not comparablequadruply, in a fourfold manner
quā^drĭfārĭam, adv. quattuor.
I. Fourfold, into four parts (class.; not in Cic. or Cæs.): quadrifariam aliquid dispertire, Varr. ap. Non. 92, 15:
conjurati quadrifariam se diviserunt, Liv. 38, 1: quadrifariam diviso exercitu, id. 4, 22, 5; Suet. Vit. 13.— II. In a fourfold manner, Dig. 38, 10, 10, § 16; cf. quadrifariter.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
quadrifāriam adv.
quattuor, fourfold, into four parts : se dividere, L.
Origins
From quādri- + -fāriam (taken from bifāriam).