populicide
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populicide
- /ˈpɒpjʊlɪsaɪd/ UK
- /ˈpɑpjələˌsaɪd/ US
Where it comes from
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.
noun populicides
- The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation. In 1793, the capital vvas menaced vvith the dreadful ſcourge of famine, and if vve are to believe ſome ſpeculative men, this originated in a populicide conſpiracy, on the part of the then exiſting government.
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noun deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation
| Español | populicidio |
|---|---|
| Português | populicídio |
| Français | populicide |
| Deutsch | Völkermord |
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title = {populicide},
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