populicide

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒpjʊlɪsaɪd/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑpjələˌsaɪd/ Hyphenation: pop‧ul‧i‧cide === Noun === populicide (countable and uncountable, plural populicides) (archaic) The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation. [from early 19th c.] ==== Derived terms ==== populicidal ==== Related terms ==== culturicide democide genocide ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === “populicide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == French == === Etymology === From Latin populus (“community; people; nation”) + French -cide (suffix meaning ‘killing’). The 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɔ.py.li.sid/ === Adjective === populicide (plural populicides) (obsolete, rare) exterminatory (towards humans); populicidal [1794] === Noun === populicide m (plural populicides) (obsolete, rare) populicide (extermination) === References === === Further reading === “populicide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === duplicopie, duplicopié