Quadrifidus, pen. cor. Adiectiuum. Virg.That is clouen in foure parts.Trabs quadrifida. Val. Flae. Labor solis quadrifidus. Claud. The course of the sunne duiding the yeare into foure parts.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
quādrĭfĭdus, 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.