English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Middle French atrocité (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Latin atrox ( “ terrible, cruel ” ) , from āter ( “ matte black” )
Pronunciation
Noun
atrocity (countable and uncountable plural atrocities
( uncountable ) atrocious ; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.( countable ) cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.
1943 Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security The United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union have received from many quarters evidence of atrocities , massacres and cold-blooded mass executions which are being perpetrated by Hitlerite forces in many of the countries they have overrun and from which they are now being steadily expelled.
Translations
extremely cruel act
Arabic: بِشَاعَة f ( bišāʕa )
Armenian: դաժանություն (hy) ( dažanutʻyun ) , գազանություն (hy) ( gazanutʻyun )
Asturian: atrocidá f
Basque: ankerkeria basatikeria
Bulgarian: зверство (bg) n ( zverstvo ) , жестокост (bg) ( žestokost )
Catalan: atrocitat f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 暴行 (zh) ( bàoxíng )
Czech: zvěrstvo n
Danish: grusomhed c
Dutch: wreedheid (nl) f gruweldaad (nl) f
Faroese: grimd f
Finnish: julmuus (fi) , hirmuteko
French: atrocité (fr) f
Galician: atrocidade (gl) f
German: Grausamkeit (de) f Gräueltat (de) f
Greek: θηριωδία (el) f ( thiriodía ) , ωμότητα (el) f ( omótita ) , βαρβαρότητα (el) f ( varvarótita )
Hebrew: פשע נגד האנושות
Hungarian: atrocitás (hu) , rémtett (hu)
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Irish: ainghníomh m gníomh uafásach m
Italian: atrocità (it) m
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Japanese: 残虐行為 ( ざんぎゃくこうい, zangyaku kōi ) , 残虐 (ja) ( ざんぎゃく, zangyaku ) , 惨酷 ( ざんこく, zankoku ) , 残忍 (ja) ( ざんにん, zannin ) , 非道 (ja) ( hidou )
Korean: 극악 (ko) ( keukak ) , 비도 ( bido ) , 잔혹 행위 ( janhok haeng'wi )
Latin: atrocitas f
Lithuanian: žvėriškumas m
Maori: tūkinotanga
Norwegian: grusomhet (no) c
Persian: سبعیت (fa) ( sabo'iyat )
Polish: okrucieństwo (pl)
Portuguese: atrocidade (pt) f
Romanian: atrocitate (ro) f
Russian: злодея́ние (ru) n ( zlodejánije ) , зве́рство (ru) n ( zvérstvo ) , жесто́кость (ru) f ( žestókostʹ ) ( cruelty )
Sardinian:
Logudorese: atrotzidade
Sassarese: atrotzidai
Scottish Gaelic: buirbe f aingidheachd f uabhas m
Serbo-Croatian: svirepost (sh) f
Slovak: krutosť ukrutnosť brutalita f
Spanish: atrocidad f
Swedish: grymhet (sv) , skändlighet ohygglighet c
Tagalog: gawaing may sukdulang pagpapahirap
Telugu: ఘోరం (te) ( ghōraṁ )
See also
Further reading
“atrocity ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC “atrocity ”, in The Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC “atrocity ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .
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