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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of caedō.
Participle
caesus (feminine caesa, neuter caesum, adverb caesim); first/second-declension participle
- cut, hewn, felled; having been cut, hewn, felled
- struck, beaten; having been struck, beaten
- killed, murdered, slain; having been killed, murdered, slain
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 6.601–602:
- ipse sub Ēsquiliīs, ubi erat sua rēgia, caesus
concidit in dūrā sanguinulentus humō- himself, slain below the Esquiline Hill, where his palace was, falls on the hard ground covered in blood.
(King Servius Tullius was assassinated.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “caesus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caesus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caesus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.