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Latin
Etymology
From quadrīgae (“four horse team”) + -ulae (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
quadrīgulae f pl (genitive quadrīgulārum); first declension
- a little quadriga (four horse team)
Declension
- Normally encountered in the plural, but Pliny does use the singular.
First-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “quadrigulae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quadrigulae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadrigulae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.