internecine

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˌɪntəˈniːsaɪn/|/-sɪn/    美 /ˌɪntɚˈnɛsin/|/ˌɪntɚˈnisin/|/ˌɪntɚˈnɛsən/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare. not-comparable
    — Internecine strife in Gaza claimed its most senior victim yesterday when militants assassinated one of the most hated security chiefs there.
  2. Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship. not-comparable
    — The Mongol people were plagued by internecine conflict until Genghis Khan unified them by focusing their aggression outwards on other peoples.

词汇关系

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mutual assured destruction

词源

Borrowed from Latin internecīnus (“deadly”), from internecium (“a massacre, bloodbath; an eradication”) + -īnus. In Latin, the sememe 'between' was here not expressed by the prefix, it instead either had a somewhat emphatic meaning or meant "down, under", comparable to its use in other Latin terms related to death: see interficiō and intereō. The English current sense is thus a reanalysis of the Latin through English inter-.
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