quadrimulus

From quadrīmus +‎ -ulus (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʷaˈdriː.mʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kʷaˈdriː.mu.lus]

quadrīmulus (feminine quadrīmula, neuter quadrīmulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. diminutive of quadrīmus, only/merely four-year-old
   • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus prologus.0.81–88:

     Revertor rursus denuo Carthaginem:
     si quid mandare voltis aut curarier,
     argentum nisi qui dederit, nugas egerit;
     [verum] qui dederit, magis maiores nugas egerit.
     Sed illi patruo huius, qui vivit senex,
     Carthaginiensi duae fuere filiae,
     altera quinquennis, altera quadrimula:
     cum nutrice una periere a Magaribus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First/second-declension adjective.

• “quadrimulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quadrimulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quadrimulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.