charnage

== Old French == === Alternative forms === carnage (northern) === Etymology === From charn (“meat”) +‎ -age (noun-forming suffix), possibly on the model of a Medieval Latin carnaticum. === Noun === charnage oblique singular, m (oblique plural charnages, nominative singular charnages, nominative plural charnage) flesh (by extension, figuratively) mincemeat (destruction; a destroyed person) meat a meat-based course of a meal the part of the year when eating meat is acceptable ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: carnage (via a northern variant)French: carnage→ English: carnage → Italian: carnaggio === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “charnage”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “carnage”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.