carnage
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French carnage [1], from a Norman or Picard variant Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF.) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/
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Audio (AU): (file)
Noun
carnage (usually uncountable, plural carnages)
- Death and destruction.
- The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
- (figurative, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
- (figurative, slang) Any chaotic situation.
- 2014, Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas:
- The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.
- 2015, Adam Jones, Bomb: My Autobiography:
- Within three hours we'd drunk the place dry. Miraculously, we all made it back on the bus, but I've never seen a more bacchanalian scene of wanton debauchery than the ride back to the hotel. It was total carnage.
- 2017 January 20, Donald Trump, The Inaugural Address[1]:
- Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “carnage”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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French
Etymology
From Middle French carnage, itself probably from a Norman or Picard (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF.) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (see also chair (“flesh”)), or from a Medieval Latin carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin carō, carnem. See also Old Occitan carnatge, Italian carnaggio.
Pronunciation
Noun
carnage m (plural carnages)
- carnage (all senses)
Further reading
- “carnage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
Probably from a Norman or Picard (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF.) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (“flesh”), or from a Medieval Latin carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin carō, carnem.
Noun
carnage m (plural carnages)
Descendants
References
- charnage on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
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