Latin edit

Etymology edit

Perfect passive participle of caedō.

Participle edit

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 edit

First/second-declension adjective.

NumberSingularPlural
Case / GenderMasculineFeminineNeuterMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativecaesuscaesacaesumcaesīcaesaecaesa
Genitivecaesīcaesaecaesīcaesōrumcaesārumcaesōrum
Dativecaesōcaesōcaesīs
Accusativecaesumcaesamcaesumcaesōscaesāscaesa
Ablativecaesōcaesācaesōcaesīs
Vocativecaesecaesacaesumcaesīcaesaecaesa

Descendants edit

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

References edit

  • 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.