caesus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perfect passive participle of caedō.
Participle[edit]
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- [The king] himself, slain below the Esquiline Hill, where his palace was, falls on the hard ground covered in blood.
(King Servius Tullius was assassinated.)
- [The king] himself, slain below the Esquiline Hill, where his palace was, falls on the hard ground covered in blood.
- ipse sub Ēsquiliīs, ubi erat sua rēgia, caesus
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | caesus | caesa | caesum | caesī | caesae | caesa | |
| Genitive | caesī | caesae | caesī | caesōrum | caesārum | caesōrum | |
| Dative | caesō | caesō | caesīs | ||||
| Accusative | caesum | caesam | caesum | caesōs | caesās | caesa | |
| Ablative | caesō | caesā | caesō | caesīs | |||
| Vocative | caese | caesa | caesum | caesī | caesae | caesa | |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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.