carnage

• n.大虐殺；残忍な殺害；大量絶滅

語源は carn（肉）、PIE *sker（切り刻む、切る）で、語源的には saw（のこぎり）、shear（剪断）と同じ。 -age（集合名詞の接尾辞）。

carnage (n.)

c. 1600, from Middle French carnage (16c.), from Old Italian carnaggio "slaughter, murder," from Medieval Latin carnaticum "flesh," from Latin carnaticum "slaughter of animals," from carnem (nominative caro) "flesh," originally "a piece of flesh," from PIE root *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)). In English always used more of slaughters of men than beasts. Southey (1795) tried to make a verb of it.

1. He said that communal carnage was ripping the country apart.

彼は人種間の殺し合いがこの国を分裂させていると言った。

2.History reduces the carnage to impersonal numbers.

歴史記述ホロコーストを冷たい数字に縮小した。

3.a scene of carnage

ホロコーストの場面

4.Refugees crossed the border to escape the carnage in their homeland.

難民は国境を越えて国内のホロコーストから逃れた。

5.The battlefield was a scene of utter carnage .

戦場は完全にホロコーストの惨状だった。