adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
quadrifidus
quadrifidus (feminine quadrifida, neuter quadrifidum)
Classical[kʷaˈdrɪ.fɪ.dʊs]Ecclesiastical[kʷaˈdriː.fi.dus]
Meaning
- adjectivequadrifid, split into four parts
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | quadrifidus | quadrifida | quadrifidum |
| genitive | quadrifidī | quadrifidae | quadrifidī |
| dative | quadrifidō | quadrifidae | quadrifidō |
| accusative | quadrifidum | quadrifidam | quadrifidum |
| ablative | quadrifidō | quadrifidā | quadrifidō |
| vocative | quadrifide | quadrifida | quadrifidum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | quadrifidī | quadrifidae | quadrifida |
| genitive | quadrifidōrum | quadrifidārum | quadrifidōrum |
| dative | quadrifidīs | quadrifidīs | quadrifidīs |
| accusative | quadrifidōs | quadrifidās | quadrifida |
| ablative | quadrifidīs | quadrifidīs | quadrifidīs |
| vocative | quadrifidī | quadrifidae | quadrifida |
quā^drĭfĭdus, a, um, adj. quattuorfindo,
I. four-cleft, split into four parts, quadrifid (poet.).
I. Lit.:
quadrifidas sudes, Verg. G. 2, 25: quadrifidam quercum Scindebat, was cleaving in four, id. A. 7, 509: quadrifidā trabe fingere tela Jovis, Val. Fl. 1, 663: ridicae, Col. 4, 33, 4.—II. Transf., in gen., divided into four parts: labor, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 268.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
quadrifidus adj.
quattuor+2 FID-, fourcleft, split into four parts : sudes, V.: Quadrifidam quercum Scindebat, into four parts , V.
Origins
From quadri- (“four”) + -fidus, from findere (“to split”).
Descendants
- Englishquadrifid
In English words that came into English from quadrifidus
- quadrifidquadrifidus