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genocide

noun
/ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/

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-der. Proto-Italic *kaidō Latin caedō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin -cīda Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius 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.

  1. derived from γένος — “race, kind”

Definitions

  1. The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people

    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.

    • A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.
    • For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.
    • 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!

  2. The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin

    The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.

    • linguistic genocide
    • 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— […]

  3. The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes.

    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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).
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To commit genocide (against)

      To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.

      • A clue appears in the Nazis finding the Gypsies dirty and disorderly (for not only Jews were genocided).
      • You just know it makes much more sense to encourage brutal governments to buy our WMD technology than to get them to put food in the empty bellies of their people or quit genociding the populace.

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Derived

antigenocide, Armenian genocide, autogenocide, auto-genocide, counter-genocide, cultural genocide, ethnogenocide, eugenicide, eugenocide, genocidable, genocidal, genocidally, Genocide Joe, genocider, genocidism, genocidist, hot genocide, postgenocide, pregenocide, white genocide, geno

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for genocide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA