genocide en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Hellenic *génos Ancient Greek γένος (génos) Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kh₂éydeti Proto-Italic *kaidō Latin caedō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin -cīda Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin -cīdiumder. Middle French -cidebor. English -cide English genocide From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide (“killing”). Piecewise doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide. Coined by Polish Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; for more information, see Terminology of the Armenian genocide on Wikipedia), massacres of Assyrians (such as the Simele massacre and Seyfo) and the Jewish Holocaust.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, or similar grounds.
For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.
1944 November 14, “Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress” (chapter chapter 9), in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, page 79:Incorporating a global-comparative perspective on the genocides of the last half millennium has enabled important advances in the understanding of events central to the genocide studies field – such as the process of Ottoman imperial dissolution, reciprocal genocidal killing (during the “Unweaving” in the Balkans), and complex international jockeying that factored into the massive anti-Christian slaughters in Anatolia in 1915 and thereafter.
2011, Adam Jones, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 65:A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.
A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.
2019 October 15, Aleksandar Hemon, “‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2020:Shaddam IV: I want fifty legion of Sardaukar on Arrakis at once! Subordinate: Fifty legions? That's our entire reserves as well. Shaddam IV: This is genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of all life on Arrakis!
1984, 1:49:22 from the start, in Dune (science fiction), spoken by Shaddam IV, →OCLC:Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:
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(broadly, countable, uncountable) The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
Native Americans in the twentieth century are no longer a "vanishing race" or a silent minority. They have survived centuries of cultural genocide inflicted on them by non-Native Americans— both the well-meaning and the self-seeking— […]
1986, James Stuart Olson, Raymond Wilson, Native Americans in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN:linguistic genocide
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(countable, uncountable) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes.
The three main playstyles are neutral (the player kills some, but not all monsters), pacifist (all monsters are spared) and genocide (all monsters are eliminated).
2022 May 29, Gabriel Elvery, “Undertale’s Loveable Monsters: Investigating Parasocial Relationships with Non-Player Characters”, in Games and Culture, volume 18, number 4, page 477:What an Extinctionist tries to do is completely eliminate as many kinds of monsters from the game as possible, either through genocide if it's available, or from just depleting all the kinds of monsters that can be produced.
2020, John Harris, Exploring Roguelike Games, CRC Press, →ISBN:I used genocide in my first ascension, but have been genocideless ever since. Makes the game much more interesting, but then again, if one hasn't ascended yet, it will be interesting anyway.
2000, Kimmo Kasila, “Arch lich at Minetown bones, Help!”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| genocides | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
eugenicide · genocidable · hot genocide · autogenocide · pregenocide · genocidism · antigenocide · auto-genocide · genocidal · counter-genocide · ethnogenocide · Armenian genocide · cultural genocide · genocidist · postgenocide · Genocide Joe · white genocide · geno · genocider · genocidally · eugenocide
Descendants
Hypernyms
Relateds
genocidaire · culturicide · ethnocide · cultural genocide · democide · mass murder · populicide
Synonyms
Translations (130)
rue ґеноці́д (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · is þjóðarmorð (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · hi जातिसंहार (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ko 집단살해 (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · he רֶצַח עַם (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · yo ìpẹ̀yàrun (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · pa ਨਸਲਕੁਸ਼ੀ (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · id genosida (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · he הַשְׁמָדַת עַם (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · nl genocide (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · it genocidio (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ja 大量虐殺 (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · la genocīdium (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · hy ցեղասպանություն (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ug ئىرقىي قىرغىنچىلىق (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ga cinedhíothú (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · af volksmoord (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · be генацы́д (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ka გენოციდი (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · cmn 種族滅絕 /种族灭绝 (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ab агеноци́д (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · tt геноцид (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ps نسل وژنه (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · sh ге̏ноцӣд (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · zza nesılkiştiş (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · pl genocyd (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · vi diệt chủng (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ko 대량학살 (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · nn folkemord (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ba геноцид (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · fy genoside (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · tr soykırım (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · fy folkemoard (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · fur gjenocidi (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ja 集団虐殺 (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · az genosid (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · zza nesılbırnayiş (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · fi joukkotuhonta (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · bg геноци́д (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · gl xenocidio (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · cy hil-laddiad (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ko 집단학살 (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · el γενοκτονία (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · mn алаан хядаан (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · tk genosid (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · lad jenosidio (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · kmr komkujî (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · sv folkmord (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ia genocidio (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · km ជនឃាត (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ky тукумкурут (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · bn গণহত্যা (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · lt genocidas (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ast xenocidiu (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · eu genozidio (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · cs genocida (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · fa نسلکشی (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · kk геноцид (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · tr jenosit (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · br gouennlazh (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · nb folkemord (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · th การฆ่าล้างเผ่าพันธุ์ (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · hy գենոցիդ (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · sq gjenocid (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ps نسل کشي (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ms pembasmian kaum (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · mk геноцид (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · fo fólkadráp (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · hu fajirtás (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · tg генотсид (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · de Genozid (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · de Völkermord (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ab анырҵәара́ (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · sv genocid (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ms genosid (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ky геноцид (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · nl soortmoord (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · hu genocídium (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · sl genocid (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · rom djenosída (Eur) (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · hi जातिवध (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · es genocidio (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ru геноци́д (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · syc ܩܛܠ ܥܡܐ (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · tg наслкушӣ (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ro genocid (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · da folkedrab (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · gd sgrios-cinnidh (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · et genotsiid (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · fi kansanmurha (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · zza kafardiş (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · sk genocída (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · pl ludobójstwo (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · kmr jenosîd (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · az soyqırım (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · kmr nijadkujî (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · nl volkerenmoord (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · pt genocídio (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ca genocidi (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · mn хядаан (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ab а́қәхара (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ar إِبَادَة جَمَاعِيَّة (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · tl henosidyo (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · yi פֿעלקערמאָרד (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · hi नस्लकुशी (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · yi גענאָציד (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ml വംശഹത്യ (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · hi जन-वध (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · uz genotsid (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · sh gȅnocīd (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · fr génocide (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · da folkemord (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · lo ການຂ້າລ້າງເຜົ່າພັນ (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · lv genocīds (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · hu népirtás (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ms genosida (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · id pembantaian (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · my လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှု (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · sw mauaji ya halaiki (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · uk геноци́д (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · he גֶ׳נוֹסַיְד (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · eo genocido (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ko 제노사이드 (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · hi नरसंहार (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ur نَسَل کُشی (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · yo ìpàrankanrun (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · nrf génocide (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · oc genocidi (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · ja ジェノサイド (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people) · io gentocido (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people)
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