populicide
pop·ul·i·cide
populicide · populicides
The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nationThe deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation.
UK/ˈpɒpjʊlɪsaɪd/US/ˈpɑpjələˌsaɪd/
Meaning
1 senses(archaic, countable, uncountable)The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation.
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Translations
4 languagesDeutsch
deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation:
Origin
Probably an unadapted borrowing from French populicide (“(noun) slaughter of a people; (adProbably 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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Forms
plural: populicides| Singular | populicide |
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Word family
4 related wordsDerivedpopulicidal
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable