Other forms: genocides
Genocide is the deliberate destruction of a whole people. Accused of genocide, the crime of genocide, prevent genocide.
It has a precise legal definition, agreed in a convention of 1948: acts committed with intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. The intent is the hardest part to prove, which is why courts move slowly on it. The word was coined in 1944.
1noungenocideThe deliberate destruction of a whole people.
“An international court tried the commander for genocide after his troops wiped out entire villages.”
genocide is a crime.
Coined in 1944 by the lawyer Raphael Lemkin from Greek genos, a race, plus Latin caedere, to kill.
Ancient Greek
γένος — race, kind
English, today
genocide
Built from
From γένος + -cide. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (“race, kind”) (cognate with gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide. gendercide. Compare genticide. coined by Q505586 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.Sylvia Angelique Alajaji: [https://books.google.de/books?id=xJB2CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=lemkin+coined+genocide+armenian&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiP-6L_z7LbAhUsC
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