Völkermord

== German == === Etymology === From Völker +‎ Mord. Occasional use from at least 1759; in the Napoleonic era popularised as a calque of the French revolutionary term populicide (1792). The German was calqued into English as folk-murdering by 1892. Both the French and the German may have influenced the younger genocide (1944). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈfœlkɐˌmɔʁt] Hyphenation: Völ‧ker‧mord === Noun === Völkermord m (strong, genitive Völkermordes or Völkermords, plural Völkermorde) genocide Synonym: Genozid Antonyms: Völkerverständigung, Völkeraussöhnung ==== Declension ==== ==== Coordinate terms ==== Massenmord Massaker ==== Related terms ==== Völkerschlacht Völkerwanderung Völkerverhetzung Ausrottung === Further reading === “Völkermord”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “Völkermord” in Duden online “Völkermord” in OpenThesaurus.de “Völkermord” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon