caedis

Caedis is the genitive singular form of the Latin noun caedes, which means murder, slaughter, or bloodshed. The base noun caedes belongs to the feminine third declension; caedis, as genitive, means “of murder” or “of bloodshed” and is used to express association, possession, or relation in Latin phrases and clauses.

In classical Latin, caedes covers acts of killing in warfare, crime, or ritual contexts. The genitive caedis appears in texts to indicate the source or context of violence, or to describe effects or causes connected with murder or bloodshed. Its exact meaning depends on the syntactic construction and the nouns it governs.

Outside scholarly Latin, caedis appears rarely as a coined term or proper name in modern media. Some authors and game developers use caedis, or capitalized variants, as a fictional place or character name to evoke themes of death or conflict, but it is not a standard English word.

Related terms include caedes (the nominative form) and other Latin words for killing and bloodshed. As a Latin grammatical form, caedis illustrates how case endings convey relationships between words without requiring additional prepositions.