Latin

Alternative forms

• caedis

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.

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Synonyms

• (murder): cruor, nex, occīsiō
• (gore): cruor

Derived terms

• hospiticīda

Related terms

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “caedes”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)