genocidio

genocide

noun heh-noh-SEE-dyoh Rare

Origin: Coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin from Greek genos (race/people) + Latin caedere (to kill).

Usage Note

Genocidio is a legal and historical term defined under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention as acts committed with intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. In Spanish discourse it appears in contexts of the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and historical debates about colonial violence. The adjective is genocida (also the noun for a perpetrator of genocide).

Examples

"El tribunal juzgó el genocidio cometido durante la guerra."

Natural Translation

The court tried the genocide committed during the war.

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