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strages

“strages” is a Latin word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. overthrow
  2. confusion
  3. defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage

Etymology

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).

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