strages

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-, the root of sternō (“I spread, bestrew, scatter, fell”), with a *-g- extension. Cognate with Ancient Greek στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “scatter”), στρατός (stratós, “army, people, body of men”), Old English strewian (English strew).

Noun

strāgēs f (genitive strāgis); third declension

1. overthrow
2. confusion
3. defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	strāgēs	strāgēs
Genitive	strāgis	strāgium
Dative	strāgī	strāgibus
Accusative	strāgem	strāgēs strāgīs
Ablative	strāge	strāgibus
Vocative	strāgēs	strāgēs

Related terms

• strāgulus
• strāmen
• strātus
• sternō
• storea
• struō
• torus

Descendants

• Italian: strage
• Piedmontese: strage
• Portuguese: estrago
• Spanish: estrago

References

• “strages”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “strages”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• strages in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to massacre: stragem edere, facere