génocide

common nounverb

Syllable Decomposition

nocide

calque of the English word genocide. Composed of géno-, from ancient Greek, and -cide from Latin caedo ('to kill'): 'murder of a people'.

Definitions

Plural

génocides

Hyponyms

holocausteShoah

Translations

  • germangerman:Genozid
  • englishenglish:genocide
  • arabicarabic:إبادة جماعية
  • chinesechinese:種族滅絕
  • koreankorean:대량학살
  • danishdanish:folkedrab
  • spanishspanish:genocidio
  • finnishfinnish:joukkotuhonta
  • greekgreek:γενοκτονία
  • hebrewhebrew:רצח עם
  • italianitalian:genocidio
  • japanesejapanese:集団虐殺
  • dutchdutch:volkerenmoord
  • polishpolish:ludobójstwo
  • portugueseportuguese:genocídio
  • russianrussian:геноцид
  • swedishswedish:folkmord
  • turkishturkish:soykırım
  • ukrainianukrainian:геноцид

See also

génocidaire (cn.) génocidaire (adj.) génocide (v.) génocides (v.)