vadōsus, a, um, adj. vadum, full of shallows or fords, shallow, shoal: mare, Caes. B. C. 1, 25: amnis, Verg. A. 7, 728: Syrtes, Sall. J. 78, 2: ostium portūs, Liv. 37, 14, 7: fretum, id. 33, 17, 6: litora, Val. Max. 8, 7, ext. 1: navigatio, Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 99.

—Poet.: aquae, i. e. restless, Luc. 8, 698.

—Sup.: Ganges ubi vadosissimus est, Sol. 52.