noun · femininethird declension
strāgēs
strāgēs f (genitive strāgis)
Meaning
- overthrow
- confusion
- defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Ruina · Strages
Ruina (from ῥεῦσαι is the falling down of things raised one upon another, in consequence of the basis giving way; whereas strages is the throwing down of bodies standing upright, in consequence of a push from without. Liv. iv. 33. Strages ruinæ similis. (vi. 309.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | strāgēs | strāgēs |
| genitive | strāgis | strāgium |
| dative | strāgī | strāgibus |
| accusative | strāgem | strāgēs strāgīs |
| ablative | strāge | strāgibus |
| vocative | strāgēs | strāgēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- stragem edere, facere
- to massacre.
strāges, is, f. sterno, II. B.,
I. a throwing down, throwing to the ground, overthrowing; an overthrow; confusion, confused heap or mass (cf.: acervus, strues; not freq. till after the Aug. per., esp. in Liv.; not in Cæs.).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.
(a). With gen.:
strage armorum saepta via est, Liv. 35, 30: nemorum, Sil. 3, 205: ruinae, Liv. 42, 63: minarum, id. 37, 32: aedificiorum et hominum, Tac. A. 1, 76: obstantis molis, id. H. 1, 86: rerum in trepidatione nocturna passim relictarum, Liv. 10, 34: boum hominumque, id. 41, 21: canum volucrumque aviumque boumque, Ov. M. 7, 536: exercituum, Val. Max. 6, 6, ext. 1.— (b). Absol.:
dabit ille (nimbus) ruinas Arboribus stragemque satis, Verg. A. 12, 454: atrox tempestas multis locis stragem fecit, Liv. 40, 2: strage ac ruinā fudere Gallos, id. 5, 43; cf. id. 4, 33.—B. Pregn., a mortal overthrow; a defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage (syn.: caedes, clades): stragem horribilem caedemque vereri, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20; so (with caedes) Tac. A. 14, 36; Just. 10, 3, 1; Val. Max. 5, 6, 5; cf.:
quantas acies stragemque ciebunt! Verg. A. 6, 829: confusae stragis acervus, id. ib. 6, 504: complere strage campos, Liv. 7, 24.—In plur.: strages facere, Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31: strages edere, id. Leg. 3, 9, 22; id. Att. 1, 16, 1; Verg. A. 9, 526; 9, 784; Just. 33, 2, 2; cf. also II.: cruentae, Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 132.—* II. Trop., overthrow, ruin, destruction:
quas ego pugnas et quantas strages edidi! Cic. Att. 1, 16, 1.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
strāgēs is, f
STRAG-, an overthrow, destruction, ruin, defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage : strages efficere: horribilis, C. poët.: quantas acies stragemque ciebunt! V.: complere strage campos, L.: ferro strages edere, V.— A confused heap, disordered mass, waste, wreck : dabit ille (nimbus) ruinas Arboribus stragemque satis, V.: tempestas stragem fecit, L.: strage armorum saepta via est, L.: rerum relictarum, L.: canum volucrumque, O.
Origins
From Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-, the root of sternō (“to 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).
Descendants
- Italianstrage
- Portugueseestrago
- Spanishestrago
- Galicianestrago
- Piedmontesestrage