caesus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of caedō.

Participle

caesus (feminine caesa, neuter caesum, adverb caesim); first/second-declension participle

  1. cut, hewn, felled; having been cut, hewn, felled
  2. struck, beaten; having been struck, beaten
  3. 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.)

Declension

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
  • Old French: cisel, chisel (Old Northern French)
  • Spanish: cinzel, cincel
  • Italian: cesello, cisello

References
  • “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.
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