ethnocide
French, noun/et.nɔ.sid/
ethnocide is spelled E-T-H-N-O-C-I-D-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ethnocide is a French masculine noun meaning “ethnocide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Destruction de la culture, de la civilisation d’un groupe humain, sans forcément viser l’élimination physique…”.
What does ethnocide mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineethnocide
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Destruction de la culture, de la civilisation d’un groupe humain, sans forcément viser l’élimination physique de ce groupe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ethnocide
- ethnocides plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ethnocide?
- /et.nɔ.sid/
- /ɛt.nɔ.sid/
- \ɛt.nɔ.sid\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ethnocide
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ethnocide in French?
ethnocide appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).