caedes
Latin
noun
Definitions
- The act of cutting or lopping something off.
- The act of striking with the fist, a beating.
- (by extension) A murder, assassination, killing, slaughter, massacre, carnage.
- (metonymy) The corpses of the slain or murdered.
- (metonymy) The blood shed by murder, gore.
Etymology
Suffix from Latin caedō (cut, strike, hew, I cut, kill, fall, fell, I cut down).
Origin
Latin
caedō
Gloss
cut, strike, hew, I cut, kill, fall, fell, I cut down
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
殺