concaedes

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ caedēs. Literally "a cutting down together".

Noun

concaedēs f (genitive concaedis); third declension

1. an abattis, an abatis, a barricade (generally of trees or logs)
   • 117, Tacitus, Annals, Liber I, 50:

     At Romanus agmine propero silvam Caesiam limitemque a Tiberio coeptum scindit, castra in limite locat, frontem ac tergum vallo, latera concaedibus munitus.

     But the Roman general in a forced march, cut through the Caesian forest and the barrier which had been begun by Tiberius, and pitched his camp on this barrier, his front and rear being defended by intrenchments, his flanks by timber barricades.

   • 378—391, Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, Liber XVI, 12, 15:

     ...sed concaede arborum densa undique semitis clausis...

     ...but having blocked the paths everywhere with a thick barricade of trees...

   • 1676, Johannes Loccenius, Historiae Suecanae, page 336:

     Si vero iam constaret de adventu hostis, facile роssе caesis arboribus oppleri & obrui viam in fronte aut fine concaedis, pro ut opus esset.

     If indeed he were already correct about the coming of the enemy, the road could easily be filled up by means of cut down trees and be covered over on the front or end of the barricade, just as the work would be.

Usage notes

• In Classical and Late Latin usage, used only in the plural except for ablative concaede in Ammianus. Use in the singular is otherwise a Medieval usage.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	concaedēs	concaedēs
genitive	concaedis	concaedium
dative	concaedī	concaedibus
accusative	concaedem	concaedēs concaedīs
ablative	concaede	concaedibus
vocative	concaedēs	concaedēs

References

• “concaedes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “concaedes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• concaedes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) credit is going down: fides (vid. sect. IX. 10, note fides has six...) concidit
    
• “concaedes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers