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 massacre, kill.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʒe.nɔ.sid/

Noun

génocide m (plural génocides)

genocide

Further reading

“génocide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

congédie, congédié

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French génocide.

Noun

génocide f (plural génocides)

(Jersey) genocide

Derived terms

génocidaithe (“genocidal”)

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