massacre
意味
- 大虐殺,皆殺し
- …を虐殺する,皆殺しにする
例文
The general ordered the massacre of all war prisoners.
将軍は捕虜全員の虐殺を命じた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
1580, from Middle French massacre, from Old French macacre, marcacre, macecre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), usually thought to be deverbal from Old French macecrer, macecler (“to slaughter”), though the noun seems to be attested somewhat earlier. It is also found in Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing”, also “the head of a newly killed stag”). Further origin disputed: * From Latin macellum (“butcher shop”). * From Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (cf. massue), from Late Latin mattea, mattia, from Latin mateola.