génocide

From English genocide

The term "genocide" was coined in English, by Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, in 1943, firstly from the Latin gēns (“tribe, clan, race”), or the Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “family, tribe, race”); and Latin -cidium, from massacre, kill.

• IPA^(key): /ʒe.nɔ.sid/

génocide m (plural génocides)

1. genocide

• “génocide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• congédie, congédié

Borrowed from French génocide.

génocide f (plural génocides)

1. (Jersey) genocide

• génocidaithe (“genocidal”)