genos

He combined the Greek word genos, meaning race or tribe, with the suffix - cide, derived from the Latin word for killing.

NPR Topics: News 2010

He combined the Greek word genos, meaning race or tribe, with the suffix - cide, derived from the Latin word for killing.

NPR Topics: News 2010

It was in this context that a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin had coined the term genocide, by which he meant "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group," in his 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, "from the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing)."

Menachem Rosensaft: Criminalizing Mass Murder: 65 Years After The UN's First Condemnation Of Genocide Menachem Rosensaft 2011

It was in this context that a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin had coined the term genocide, by which he meant "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group," in his 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, "from the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing)."

Menachem Rosensaft: Criminalizing Mass Murder: 65 Years After The UN's First Condemnation Of Genocide Menachem Rosensaft 2011

In it, he combined the Greek word genos, for race, with the Latin word cide, for killing -- genocide, a new word for a crime that he would spend his lifetime trying to prevent.

CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2008 2008

In it, he combined the Greek word genos, for race, with the Latin word cide, for killing -- genocide, a new word for a crime that he would spend his lifetime trying to prevent.

CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2008 2008

In it, he combined the Greek word genos, for race, with the Latin word cide, for killing -- genocide, a new word for a crime that he would spend his lifetime trying to prevent.

CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2008 2008

This new word, coined by the author to denote an old practice in its modern development, is made from the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing), thus corresponding in its formation to such words as tyrannicide, homocide, infanticide, etc.(

2009 November « The View From LL2 2009

Celsus speaks of the genos of the Jews, and opposes both genē in the sharpest manner to all other nations, in order to show that when Christians, as renegade Jews, distinguish themselves from this genos — a genos which is, at least, a people — they do so to their own loss.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

"genos", meaning people or folk, and the Latin word "caedere", meaning slaughtering or destroying.

Assyrian International News Agency 2009