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caedi

caedi is a Latin form of caedes, meaning “slaughter, murder”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of caedo, “cut, cut down; strike, beat; kill, slaughter”.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.70: … adeo cum damnatus eris,—nam dubitatio damnationis illis recuperatoribus quae poterat esse?—virgis te ad necem caedi necesse erit. his legibus, his condicionibus erit quisquam tam stultus qui decumas venisse arbitretur, qui ar …

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.3.13: … at, monendus est puer; habendumque in animo semper illud Vergilianum: adeo in teneris consuescere multum est. Caedi vero discentes, quamlibet et receptum sit et Chrysippus non improbet, minime velim. primum , quia deforme atq …

All forms of caedes (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.