ethnocide

"Ethnocide" means "destruction or murder of an ethnic group". It comes from the Greek "έθνος" and the Latin "caedere". In contrast to the more-general term "genocide" (pertaining to a case in which significant numbers of people are murdered, and with "genus" referring to either ethnic, class, or familial distinction), "ethnocide" refers to the specific and targeted destruction of an ethnic group.

The Holocaust was really less of a genocide than it was an ethnocide, since the Nazis (Yemach shemam.) specifically intended to destroy the Jewish ethnic group.

by Nickidewbear March 6, 2014

ethnicide

The decline or decimation of an ethnic identity, not necessarily involving genocidal or sectarian violence, often takes the form of the gradual replacing of an indigenous ethnic indentity, by an incoming ethnic group.

The slow ethnicide of the cultural practices and identity of Armenians, culminated in a massacre of their numbers by the Turks.

by Aristotles23 May 29, 2016

Econocide

The act of committing suicide as a result of bad economic conditions.

The President of the company committed econocide after the economy worsened.

by Garrett Graff April 23, 2009

Econocide

Homicide, Suicide, Genocide, Pesticide...etc. Any act of killing directly influence by the state of the economy.

Joe: "We're in a recession, right?"

Nick: "Yea, why?"

Joe: "We'll then, I'm bustin an econocide."

Nick: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

by Konmong February 6, 2009

ethnoid

any person who looks like they could be of mixed racial parentage

Angelina Jolie looks like an ethnoid to me.

by nick barknot May 24, 2007

ethnicide

extermination by massacre of an entire ethnic group.

The Nazi regime resorted to Jewish ethnicide, a blot on European history.

by uttam maharjan December 14, 2010