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caesa

caesa is a Latin form of caedo, meaning “cut, cut down; strike, beat; kill, slaughter”. It is the perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine or perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter.

Found 176 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.29.1: Reliquis deinceps diebus Caesar silvas caedere instituit, et ne quis inermibus imprudentibusque militibus ab latere impetus fieri posset, omnem eam materiam quae erat caesa conversam ad hostem conlocabat et pro vallo ad utrumque latus extruebat.

Ovid, Heroides 5.41: Caesa abies, sectaeque trabes, et classe parata

All forms of caedo (conjugation 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.