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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kaidō, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂id-, *kh₂eyd- (“to cut, hew”).
Cognates include Old High German heia (“wooden hammer”), Old Armenian խայթ (xaytʻ, “sting”) and Sanskrit खिदति (khídati, “to tear, press”).
Pronunciation
Verb
caedō (present infinitive caedere, perfect active cecīdī, supine caesum); third conjugation
- to cut, hew, fell
- to strike, beat
- Synonyms: ferio, tango, percutio, pello, percello, ico, discutio, pulsō, accido, affligo, impingo, verbero
- to kill, to murder
- Synonyms: ēnecō, occīdō, interimō, cōnficiō, obtruncō, necō, percutiō, interficiō, trucīdō, iugulō, sōpiō, perimō, peragō, dēiciō, tollō, absūmō, cōnsūmō
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 5.772:
- tris Eryci uitulos et Tempestatibus agnam / caedere deinde iubet soluique ex ordine funem.
- to defeat decisively (defeat with heavy losses to the enemy side)
- Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, ēvincō, conquestō, superō, domō, prōflīgō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō
27 BCE – 25 BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
- C. Sulpicio cui Sicilia euenerat duae legiones quas P. Cornelius habuisset decretae et supplementum de exercitu Cn. Fului, qui priore anno in Apulia foede caesus fugatusque erat.
- To Gaius Sulpicius to whom Sicily was allotted two legions which Publius Cornelius had held were decided upon and reinforcements from Gnaius Fulvius’ army, which in the previous year had been shamefully defeated decisively and put to flight in Apulia
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References
- “caedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to slaughter victims: victimas (oxen), hostias (smaller animals, especially sheep) immolare, securi ferire, caedere, mactare
- to fell trees: arbores caedere
- to beat with rods: virgis caedere
- to utterly rout the enemy: caedere et fundere hostem
- to absolutely annihilate the enemy: hostes ad internecionem caedere, delere (Liv. 9. 26)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 79-80