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Dec 8, 2020 · massacre (v.) "to kill (many beings) indiscriminately," commonly in reference to those who are not in a condition to defend themselves, 1580s, from French massacrer "to slaughter" (16c.), from massacre (n.) "wholesale slaughter, carnage" (see massacre (n.)).
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A massacre is an event in which large numbers of people, often, but not necessarily civilians, are indiscriminately killed by another or others. The word is also used to describe a scene of carnage, or in competitive activities, a comprehensive and disproportionate victory of one side over another. [1]
The first records of the word massacre come from around 1580. It comes from the Middle French verb massacrer. It may ultimately derive from the Vulgar Latin matteūca, meaning “mallet,” but its origin is uncertain.
The earliest known use of the noun massacre is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for massacre is from before 1578, in the writing of Robert Lindsay, historian. massacre is a borrowing from French.
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Alternative forms
1. massacer (archaic)
Etymology
1580, from Middle French massacre, from Old French macacre, marcacre, macecre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), usually thought to be deverbal from Old French macecrer, macecler (“to slaughter”), though the noun seems to be attested somewhat earlier. It is also found in Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing”, also “the head of a newly killed stag”). Further origin disputed: 1. From Latin macellum (“butcher shop”). 2. From Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (cf....
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈmæs.ə.kə(ɹ)/
Etymology
Borrowed from French massacre.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈsa.kɾə] 2. IPA(key): (Valencia) [maˈsa.kɾe]
Noun
massacre f (plural massacres) 1. massacre
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ma.sakʁ/
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle French massacre, from the verb massacrer.
Further reading
1. “massacre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology
Of disputed origin: 1. Most likely from Old French macecrer, macecler, from Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (cf. massue), from Late Latin mattia, *mattea, from Latin mateola. 2. From a derivative of Latin macellum (“butcher shop”), although this is less likely. 3. From Old French macacre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), alternatively from Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing”, also “the head of a newly killed stag”), from Middle Low German *matskelen (“to m...
Noun
massacre m (plural massacres) 1. massacre
Etymology
From French massacre.
Noun
massacre m (plural massacres) 1. massacre
Oct 10, 2020 · The word reached England in the wake of the French Wars of Religion, when a French word that initially described a butcher’s block came to mean the cruel murder of people.
It’s unclear where the word massacre came from, but possibly it was the Old French word macacre, which means “slaughterhouse.” As a noun, massacre is a brutal slaughter of humans or animals, and it can be a verb as well, like when an army massacres an entire village of innocent people.
