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Galician
Verb
caedes
- second-person plural present indicative of caer
Latin
Etymology
From caedō (“I cut down, hew”) + -ēs.
Pronunciation
Noun
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, husband, 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.)
- (metonymically) the corpses of the slain or murdered
- (metonymically) the blood shed by murder, gore
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Synonyms
References
- “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, 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)