Multífidus, pen. cor. Ex Multus & Findo compositum. Plinius. Hauing many slits, clifts, or creuises: diuided in many parts full of scotches.Multifidus dens. Mart. The tooth side of a combe.Discrimen multifidum. Claud. Manifolde dangers.Fluuius multifidus. Lucan. A riuer hauing many streanies.Quercus multifida.Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
multĭfĭdus, a, um, adj. [multus-findo], many-cleft, i. e. cleft or divided into many parts (poet. and post-Aug.). I.Lit.: faces, Ov. M. 7, 259; 8, 644: pedes, Plin. 11, 37, 45, 128: dens, i. e.
a comb
, Mart. 14, 25, 2.—B.Transf., of the hair, many-parted, parted into many locks: illi multifidos crinis sinuatur in orbes, Idaliā divisus acu, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 15.—Of rivers, divided into many streams: Timavus,
many-armed
, Mart. 8, 28, 7.—II.Trop.: horror,
various, manifold
, Val. Fl. 4, 661: suavitates, Mart. Cap. 2, 117: vaticinandi scientia, Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. M. 1, 2.