caedes
Galician edit
Verb edit
caedes
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From caedō (“I cut down, hew”) + -ēs.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkae̯.deːs/, [ˈkäe̯d̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.des/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːd̪es]
Noun edit
caedēs f (genitive caedis); third declension
- the act of cutting or lopping something off
- the act of striking with the fist, a beating
- (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.)
- “[...] ever since the wretched fate of Sychaeus, [my late] husband, [when] our hearth-gods were blood-stained by a fraternal murder, [...].”
- “[...] miserī post fāta Sychaeī / coniugis et sparsōs frāternā caede penātīs, [...].”
- (metonymically) the corpses of the slain or murdered
- (metonymically) the blood shed by murder, gore
Declension edit
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 edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “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)
- to threaten war, carnage: denuntiare bellum, caedem (Sest. 20. 46)