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:
genocidePlural:
genocidesOrigin of Genocide
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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
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Greek genos race genə- in Indo-European roots –cide
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
