Genocide Definition

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