English
genticide
Genticide comes from Latin gēns ‘a race, nation, people’, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis ‘birth, production’, and ultimately from *ǵenh₁-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵenh₁-‘to produce, to beget, to give birth’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵénh₁tis‘birth, production’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gentisreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgēns‘a race, nation, people’
- Englishearliest quotation 1837genticide
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵenh₁-‘to produce, to beget, to give birth’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵénh₁tis‘birth, production’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gentisreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgēns‘a race, nation, people’
- Englishearliest quotation 1837genticide
Earliest quotation: 1837, a friend of peace: “When we call unjust war murder, we give it…”
Formed from -cide ‘a killing of’
The story
The combination represents a hypothetical Latin etymon of the form *genticīdium, regularly formed from gēns + -cīdium.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce, to beget, to give birth’
king, general, nature, german, engine, native, pregnant, generation, gender, genuine, kindness, ken, genius, gene, oxygen, indigenous, genre, naive, nationalism, hydrogen, kin, noel, innate, natal, genus, nee, nada, kinder, genocide, genital, naïve, ingenious, nativity, germ, janata, puny, nascent, cognate, glycogen, gingerly, 106 more
through Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis ‘birth, production’
kind, nation, genesis, genetics, 14 more
through Latin gēns ‘a race, nation, people’
Today it means
noun The killing of a race or nation of people; the slaughter of an ethnic group; a genocide.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- / genticide