clades

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English

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Noun

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clades

  1. plural of clade

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Catalan

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clades

  1. plural of clade

French

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clades m

  1. plural of clade

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *klādēs, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥h₂d-, from *kelh₂- (to beat, break).

Cognate with Proto-Celtic *kladiwos, Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos), Proto-Balto-Slavic *kálˀtei (to beat) (compare Lithuanian kálti (to hammer), Old Church Slavonic клати (klati, to stab)), Old English hild (war, battle). Related to Latin percellō, procella.

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clādēs f (genitive clādis); third declension

  1. a breaking
  2. destruction, disaster
    Synonyms: incommodum, dētrīmentum, vulnus, incommoditās, calamitās, cāsus, perniciēs, interitus, īnfortūnium, miseria, pestis, exitium
  3. (In war or battle) defeat
    Synonyms: calamitās, incommodum, dētrīmentum, vulnus
    Antonym: victōria

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative clādēs clādēs
Genitive clādis clādium
Dative clādī clādibus
Accusative clādem clādēs
clādīs
Ablative clāde clādibus
Vocative clādēs clādēs

References

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  • clades”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • clades”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • clades in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • clades in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to inflict a defeat on the enemy: cladem hostibus afferre, inferre
    • to suffer a defeat: cladem accipere