carnage

English

Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French carnage , from a Norman or Picard variant ) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹ.nɪdʒ/

• Audio (AU)

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Noun

carnage (usually uncountable, plural carnages)

1. Death and destruction.
2. The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
3. (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.

Synonyms

• insurrectionism
• bloodbath
• massacre

Translations

death and destruction

• Bulgarian: клане (bg) n (klane), сеч (bg) f (seč)
• Catalan: carnatge m
• Chinese: 大屠殺, 大屠杀
• Czech: masakr m, krveprolití n, řež (cs) f
• Dutch: bloedbad (nl) n
• Finnish: verilöyly (fi)
• French: carnage (fr)
• German: Massaker (de) m
• Greek: ανθρωποσφαγή [anθro̞ˌpo̞sfaˈʝi] f, μακελειό [mace̞ˈʎo̞] n, εκατόμβη [e̞kaˈto̞ɱvi] f
• Hebrew: מרחץ דמים
• Hungarian: vérontás (hu)
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• Irish: eirleach m
• Italian: carneficina (it) f
• Japanese: 大虐殺, 修羅 (しゅら, shura)
• Korean: 대학살 (ko) (daehaksal)
• Maori: tārukenga
• Old English: wæl
• Polish: rzeź (pl) f
• Portuguese: massacre (pt) m, carnagem f
• Russian: резня́ (ru) f (reznjá), бо́йня (ru) f (bójnja), побо́ище (ru) n (pobóišče)
• Scottish Gaelic: àr m, marbhadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: pokolj (sh) m, masakr (sh) m
• Spanish: carnicería (es) f, masacre (es) m, carnaje m, matanza (es) f, escabechina f, degollina f (Spain), matazón f

what remains after a massacre

• Maori: tārukenga
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• Spanish: carnicería (es) f

Anagrams

• cranage

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French

Etymology

From Middle French carnage, itself probably from a Norman or Picard () variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (cf. chair (“flesh”)), or from a Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin carō, carnem. Cf. also Old Occitan carnatge, Italian carnaggio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.naʒ/

• Audio

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Noun

carnage m (plural carnages)

1. carnage (all senses)

Further reading

• “carnage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Etymology

Probably from a Norman or Picard () variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (“flesh”), or from a Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin carō, carnem.

Noun

carnage m (plural carnages)

1. a piece of meat used as bait

Descendants

• → English: carnage
• French: carnage

References

• charnage on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)