I.many-shaped, multiform; various, diverse, manifold (class.): “nuces,” Col. 7, 9, 8: “qualitates,” Cic. Ac. 1, 7, 26: “multiformes sumus,” have a fickle character, Sen. Ep. 120, 23: “artes multiformes et variae,” Gell. 19, 14, 1: “varius, multiplex, multiformis,” Aur. Vict. Epit. 14, 6: “Ennius,” Front. ad Verr. 1: “historia,” Amm. 16, 5, 7.—Hence, adv.: mul-tĭformĭter , in many ways, variously (post-Aug.): “varie et multiformiter disserere,” Gell. 9, 5, 7; Plin. 36, 27, 69, § 202.
multĭ-formis , e, adj. multus-forma,