caedes

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Galician

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Verb

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caedes

  1. second-person plural present indicative of caer

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From caedō (I cut down, hew) +‎ -ēs.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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caedēs f (genitive caedis); third declension

  1. the act of cutting or lopping something off
  2. the act of striking with the fist, a beating
  3. (by extension) murder, assassination, killing, slaughter, massacre, carnage
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.20-21:
      “[...] miserī post fāta Sychaeī / coniugis et sparsōs frāternā caede penātīs, [...].”
      “[...] ever since the wretched fate of Sychaeus, [my late] husband, [when] our hearth-gods were blood-stained by a fraternal murder, [...].”
      (Dido’s brother Pygmalion had murdered her husband Sychaeus, a grievous act which dishonored her familial penates.)
  4. (metonymically) the corpses of the slain or murdered
  5. (metonymically) the blood shed by murder, gore

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caedēs caedēs
Genitive caedis caedium
Dative caedī caedibus
Accusative caedem caedēs
caedīs
Ablative caede caedibus
Vocative caedēs caedēs

Synonyms

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References

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  • caedes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • caedes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caedes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to threaten war, carnage: denuntiare bellum, caedem (Sest. 20. 46)
    • there was great slaughter of fugitives: magna caedes hostium fugientium facta est
    • to cause great slaughter, carnage: ingentem caedem edere (Liv. 5. 13)