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means The deliberate, systematic destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

from Coined in 1944 by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who fused the Greek 'genos' (race, tribe, kind) with the Latin '-cide' (killing, as in homicide, suicide). Lemkin built the word specifically because he found existing legal language had no term for the Nazi destruction of Jews and other groups — a gap that had swallowed his own family. He spent years lobbying to get it recognized in international law, and it was used at Nuremberg and later enshrined in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.