populicide

发音

UK /ˈpɒpjʊlɪsaɪd/
其它
US /ˈpɑpjələˌsaɪd/

词形变化

populicides 复数 populicides

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation.

    古体 可数 不可数

词源

Probably an unadapted borrowing from French populicide (“(noun) slaughter of a people; (adjective) harmful to the people”) (obsolete, rare), from Latin populus (“community; people; nation”) + French -cide (suffix meaning ‘killing’). The French word populicides was coined by the French journalist and revolutionary François-Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) in 1795 to describe the massacre of 117,000 farmers in the Vendée region during the French Revolution. Equivalent to populace + -icide.

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