genocidaire
/ʒɛn.ə.siˈdɛ(ə)ɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who was involved in committing (perpetrating) the Rwandan Genocide.
noun
One who is involved in committing (perpetrating) any genocide.
Example Sentences
- "'There are thousands of genocidaires living in EU countries, with large numbers in almost every European country including the UK,' said Rakiya Omaar, whose organisation, African Rights, has worked since the genocide to track them down."
- "When the RPF sent him and a friend back to school in Rwanda […] his friend attacked the Hutu teacher one night, strangling him with a rope, saying that he was a génocidaire."
- "To take an example from a clear case of genocide—Rwanda—the Hutu génocidaires did not appear to want to destroy all Tutsis everywhere, but only in Rwanda."
- "[…] Israeli genocidaires who have the full support and backing of the racist American genocidaires against Palestine and the Palestinians. The ICC will not touch White racist American, British, Canadian, European, and Israeli perpetrators […]"
- "What we must see, Rechtman argues, is that for genocidaires (those who carry out acts that are or approach genocide), there is nothing extraordinary, unusual, or world-historical about [their acts]."
- "But the US is completely isolated from the rest of the world in this. Somehow, Rubio in his inexperience thinks that an action like stopping the Palestinian delegates to come spares the US from the opprobrium of being a genocidaire that is complicit in a genocide and being completely isolated in this."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Hellenic *génos Ancient Greek γένος (génos) Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kh₂éydeti Proto-Italic *kaidō Latin caedō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin -cīda Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin -cīdiumder. Middle French -cidebor. English -cide English genocidebor. French génocide Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. French -aire French génocidairebor. English genocidaire Borrowed from French génocidaire. Piecewise doublet of genocider.