carnage
/ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/ · noun
Meaning
- Death and destruction.
- The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
- Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
- A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
- Any chaotic situation.
Etymology / origin
Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -age.
- *carnaticum(la-vul)→
- -(fro-nor)→
- carnage(Middle French)→
- *(s)ker-(ine-pro)→
- carnage (English)
- Relations: root, bor, der, der
Related words
Descendant words
- karno(Esperanto) (cog)
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