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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
- overthrow
- confusion
- defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Descendants
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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to massacre: stragem edere, facere