cecidissent

cecidissent is a Latin form of cado, meaning “fall; die”.

It can also be a form of caedo, “cut, cut down; strike, beat; kill, slaughter”. It is the 3rd person plural pluperfect active subjunctive.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.27.3: At hostes, etiam in extrema spe salutis, tantam virtutem praestiterunt ut, cum primi eorum cecidissent, proximi iacentibus insisterent atque ex eorum corporibus pugnarent,

All forms of cado (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.