genocide

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people, typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds.
3. (broadly, countable, uncountable) The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
4. (countable, uncountable) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.

Verb

To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.

Έννοιες

γενοκτονία

genoktonía

Συνώνυμα

holocaust

racial extermination

race murder

massacre

decimation

ethnic cleansing

social status

mass killing

destruction

Μεταφράσεις

génocide

genocidio

Völkermord

genocidio

genocídio

Genozid

genocidi

genocide

volkerenmoord

soykırım

genocidi

القتل العرقي

إبادة جماعية

volkenmoord

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Coined by lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; see: Terminology of the Armenian genocide) and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide (“killing, killer”). Piecewise doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.