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Genocide

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means the deliberate killing of a large group of people of a particular nation or ethnicity
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Stage 1 of 2
genos
Greek · ancient
"race, kind"
race or kind, combined with Latin -cide (killing)
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Stage 2 of 2
genocide
English · 1940s
"the deliberate destruction of a national or ethnic group"
coined by lawyer Raphael Lemkin to name the deliberate destruction of a people
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