genticide

名词 n.
英 /ˈd͡ʒɛntɪsaɪd/    美 /ˈd͡ʒɛntəsaɪd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The killing of a race or nation of people; the slaughter of an ethnic group; a genocide. rare
    — When we call unjust war murder, we give it too mild a name. It is wholesale murder; it is what might be denominated genticide, or the murder of nations.
  2. The killing of a kinsman or kinswoman; the murder of a blood relative. rare
    — Thus the hatred of the kin group was the highest penalty for genticide or the murder of a clansman: […]

词形变化

genticides plural

词源

From the Latin gēns (“a race, nation, people; a clan, family”, oblique stem: gent-) + -cide (“a killing of”). The combination represents a hypothetical Latin etymon of the form *genticīdium, regularly formed from gēns + -cīdium. Compare genericide and genocide.
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