génocide

See also: genocide

French

Etymology

From English genocide.

The term "genocide" was coined in English, by Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, in 1943, firstly from the Latin gēns (“tribe, clan, race”), or the Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “family, tribe, race”); and Latin -cidium, from occidō (“massacre, kill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒe.nɔ.sid/

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Noun

génocide m (plural génocides)

1. genocide

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• congédie, congédié

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French génocide.

Noun

génocide f (plural génocides)

1. (Jersey) genocide

Derived terms

• génocidaithe (“genocidal”)