quā̆drĭfĭdus, a, um, adj. [quattuorfindo], 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.