caedes

Meaning

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

Concepts

bloodshed

carnage

bloodbath

killing

butchery

murder

massacre

assassination

slaying

blood

🩸

blood bath

bloodletting

mass murder

slaughter

slaughtering

Synonyms

strages

cruor

🩸

nex

sanguis

🩸

trucidatio

effusio sanguinis

Translations

Blutvergießen

Gemetzel

massacre

bain de sang

massacro

boucherie

carneficina

ανθρωποσφαγή

massacre

Blutbad

Massaker

hécatombe

bloedbad

مجزرة

hecatombe

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈkae̯.deːs]

Etymology

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