strages

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-, the root of sternō (“I spread, bestrew, scatter, fell”), with a *-g- extension. Cognate with Ancient Greek στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “scatter”), στρατός (stratós, “army, people, body of men”), Old English strewian (English strew).

Noun

strāgēs f (genitive strāgis); third declension

  1. overthrow
  2. confusion
  3. defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative strāgēs strāgēs
Genitive strāgis strāgium
Dative strāgī strāgibus
Accusative strāgem strāgēs
strāgīs
Ablative strāge strāgibus
Vocative strāgēs strāgēs

Descendants
  • Italian: strage
  • Piedmontese: strage
  • Portuguese: estrago
  • Spanish: estrago

References
  • “strages”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “strages”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • strages in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to massacre: stragem edere, facere
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