genocide
意味
- (人種・民族などを絶滅させる目的の)大虐殺,集団虐殺
語源
geno民族・種族＋cide殺すこと
ギリシャ語genos「種族」＋ラテン語系-cide「殺すこと」。第二次大戦中の1944年に作られた語で「民族の大虐殺」。
suicide（自殺）、pesticide（殺虫剤）の-cideも「殺す」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide (“killing”). Piecewise doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide. Coined by Polish Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin 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.