Genocide Definition

jĕnə-sīd
noun
The systematic destruction of a national or ethnic group, specif. by means of execution or murder.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • racial extermination
  • race murder

Other Word Forms of Genocide

Noun

Singular:
genocide
Plural:
genocides

Origin of Genocide

  • Coined in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, to describe what the Turkish government perpetrated against the Armenian people between about 1915 and 1918: the Armenian Genocide. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) or Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”) (as in genus), +‎ -cide (“killing, killer”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek genos race genə- in Indo-European roots –cide

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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