caedes

caedes

Latin

Alternative forms

• caedis
• cēdēs (medieval)

Etymology

From caedō (“I cut down, hew”) +‎ -ēs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkae̯.deːs/, [ˈkäe̯d̪eːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.des/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːd̪es]

Noun

caedēs f (genitive caedis); third declension

1. The act of cutting or lopping something off.
2. The act of striking with the fist, a beating.
3. (by extension) A murder, assassination, killing, slaughter, massacre, carnage.
4. (metonymically) The corpses of the slain or murdered.
5. (metonymically) The blood shed by murder, gore.

Declension

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

• (murder): cruor, nex, occīsiō
• (corpse): corpus, fūnus, mors, cadāver
• (gore): cruor

Related terms

• caedō
• caeduus
• caelāmen
• caelātor
• caelātūra
• caelō
• caelum (“chisel”)
• caesa
• caesim
• caesiō
• caesor
• caespes
• caesum
• caesūra
• caesus
• -cīda
• -cīdium

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)