massacre

• vt.無駄に殺す；完膚なきまでに打ち負かす
• n.大虐殺；大敗
• n.(虐殺)人名；(仏)大虐殺

古フランス語のmacacre、屠殺場、食肉屠殺場から。原語ゲルマン語の *maitana、切る、裂く、PIE *mai、切る、裂く、から語源。

massacre (v.)

1580s, from Middle French massacrer "to slaughter" (16c.), from massacre (n.) "wholesale slaughter, carnage" (see massacre (n.)). Related: Massacred; massacring.

massacre (n.)

1580s, from Middle French massacre "wholesale slaughter, carnage," from Old French macacre, macecle "slaughterhouse, butchery," of unknown origin; perhaps related to Latin macellum "provisions store, butcher shop."

1. The massacre laid bare the moral bankruptcy of the regime.

大虐殺はこの政権の道徳性を暴いた。

2.In March 1770,there occurred what became known as the Boston Massacre .

1770年3月そこで後に有名になったボストンの惨事が起きた。

3.Most of them had only heard of the massacre at second hand.

彼らの多くはそのホロコーストを聞いただけだ。

5.Maria lost her 62-year-old mother in the massacre .

マリアはホロコーストで62歳の母を失った。