strages

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-. Cognate with Ancient Greek στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “scatter”), στρατός (stratós, “army, people, body of men”), Old English strewian (English strew) and Latin sternō, strāmen and torus.

Noun

strāges f (genitive strāgis); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Case Singular Plural
nominative strāges strāgēs
genitive strāgis strāgium
dative strāgī strāgibus
accusative strāgem
strāgim		 strāgēs
strāgīs
ablative strāge
strāgī		 strāgibus
vocative strāges strāgēs

Descendants

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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