carnage
English
Etymology
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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
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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, 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.
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “carnage”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
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 (cf. chair (“flesh”)), or from a Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin carō, carnem. Cf. 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 Vulgar 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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