vada

vada is a Latin form of vado, meaning “go, walk, rush”.

It can also be a form of vas, “vessel, dish, container”.

It can also be a form of vadum, “shallow water, ford; (pl.) shallows, the sea”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun or nominative plural neuter noun or 2nd person singular present active imperative or accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 112 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.9.6: ac iam ut omnia contra opinionem acciderent, tamen se plurimum navibus posse, [quam] Romanos neque ullam facultatem habere navium, neque eorum locorum ubi bellum gesturi essent vada, portus, insulas novisse;

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 11.10.3: … um numerum videtur effecisse. hoc accessit manus Ventidi, quae trans Appenninum itinere facto difficillimo ad Vada pervenit atque ibi se cum Antonio coniunxit. est numerus veteranorum et armatorum satis frequens cum Ventidio …

Propertius, Elegiae 4.2.8: remorum auditos per uada pulsa sonos:

All forms of vado (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.