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English

Alternative forms

• massacer (archaic)

Etymology

1580, from Middle French massacre, from Old French macacre, marcacre, macecre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), usually thought to be deverbal from Old French macecrer, macecler (“to slaughter”), though the noun seems to be attested somewhat earlier. It is also found in Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing”, also “the head of a newly killed stag”). Further origin disputed:

• From Latin macellum (“butcher shop”).
• From Vulgar Latin *matteucul?re, from *matteuca (cf. massue), from Late Latin mattea, mattia, from Latin mateola.
• From Middle Low German *matskelen (“to massacre”) (compare German metzeln (“massacre”)), frequentative of matsken, matzgen (“to cut, hew”), from Proto-West Germanic *maitan, from Proto-Germanic *maitan? (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“small”). Akin to Old High German meizan (“to cut”) among others.
• Note also Arabic ?????????? (majzara), originally “spot where animals are slaughtered”, now also “massacre”, and in Maghrebi Arabic “slaughterhouse”. Derived from ??????? (jazara, “to cut, slaughter”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæs.?.k?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæs.?.k?(?)/

Noun

massacre (countable and uncountable, plural massacres)

1. The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene v:

     I'll find a day to massacre them all,
     And raze their faction and their family

   St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

   St. Valentine's Day Massacre

   Amritsar Massacre

2. (obsolete) Murder.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third

     The tyrannous and bloody act is done,—
     The most arch deed of piteous massacre
     That ever yet this land was guilty of.

3. (figuratively) Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.

Synonyms

• (mass killing contrary to civilized norms): butchery, slaughter (in the manner of livestock); decimation (strictly an orderly selection of ? of a group for slaughter; see its entry for other terms concerning other ratios)

Hyponyms

• (mass killing contrary to civilized norms): atrocity; war crime; ethnic cleansing

Related terms

• carnage
• mass murder
• massacrer
• massacree

Translations

Verb

massacre (third-person singular simple present massacres, present participle massacring, simple past and past participle massacred)

1. (transitive) To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms. (Often limited to the killing of human beings.)
   • 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History Of England From the Accession of James II

     If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as Maximilian had massacred the Theban legion

2. (figuratively) To win so decisively it is in the manner of so slaughtering one's opponent.
3. (figuratively) To give a performance so poorly it is in the manner of so slaughtering the musical piece, play etc being performed.

Translations

Anagrams

• Marescas, massacer

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French massacre.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m??sa.k??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ma?sa.k?e/

Noun

massacre f (plural massacres)

1. massacre

Related terms

• massacrar

Further reading

• “massacre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.sak?/

Etymology 1

From Middle French massacre, from the verb massacrer.

Noun

massacre m (plural massacres)

1. massacre

Related terms

• massacrer

Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

massacre

1. first-person singular present indicative of massacrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of massacrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of massacrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of massacrer
5. second-person singular imperative of massacrer

Further reading

• “massacre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• sacrâmes, sarcasme

Middle French

Etymology

Of disputed origin:

• Most likely from Old French macecrer, macecler, from Vulgar Latin *matteucul?re, from *matteuca (cf. massue), from Late Latin mattia, *mattea, from Latin mateola.
• From a derivative of Latin macellum (“butcher shop”), although this is less likely.
• From Old French macacre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), alternatively from Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing”, also “the head of a newly killed stag”), from Middle Low German *matskelen (“to massacre”) (compare German metzeln (“massacre”)), frequentative of matsken, matzgen (“to cut, hew”), from Proto-West Germanic *maitan, from Proto-Germanic *maitan? (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“small”). Akin to Old High German meizan (“to cut”) among others.

Noun

massacre m (plural massacres)

1. massacre

Descendants

• French: massacre

Occitan

Etymology

From French massacre

Pronunciation

Noun

massacre m (plural massacres)

1. massacre

Related terms

• massacrar

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French massacre.

Pronunciation

Noun

massacre m (plural massacres)

1. massacre

Related terms

• massacrar
• massacrante

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Res

Symbol

res

1. (mathematical analysis) residue

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??z/ (noun, verb)
• Rhymes: -?z
• IPA^(key): /?e?z/ (noun form)
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: raise, rase, rays, raze, rehs, réis

Noun

res

1. plural of re

Noun

res (plural reses)

1. (Canada, US, informal) Clipping of reservation.

   Synonym: (Indian reserve or reservation) rez

2. (Canada, South Africa) Clipping of residence.
3. (computing) Clipping of resolution (of a computer display or image).

   Coordinate term: hi-res

4. Clipping of reservoir (from computer water cooling).
5. (role-playing games) Clipping of resurrection.

Verb

res (third-person singular simple present reses, present participle ressing, simple past and past participle ressed)

1. (role-playing games) short form of resurrect

Anagrams

• -ers, ERS, ERs, ESR, RSE, SER, SRE, ers, ser, ser.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?r?s/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?r?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?res/
• Rhymes: -es

Etymology 1

From Latin r?s (“thing”). Compare French rien.

Pronoun

res

1. nothing
2. (in negative sentences) anything

Alternative forms

• re
• rès (obsolete)

Derived terms

• de res
• no-res

Etymology 2

Noun

res

1. plural of re

Further reading

• “res” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “res” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “res” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “res” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin r?s (“thing”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?res/

Noun

res f (plural reses)

1. head of quadrupedal cattle or game
2. flock, herd; cattle
   • 1355, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 168:

     os quaes me pagastes en dineiros et en res

     which you paid me in money and in cattle

Pronoun

res

1. (rare or dated) nothing (in negative sentences)

   Synonym: nada

Related terms

• ren
• rexelo

Etymology 2

Plural of re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?res/

Noun

res m pl

1. plural of re

Etymology 3

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese r?es (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin r?nes (“kidneys”). Cognate with Template:kw.

Alternative forms

• rens

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?res/

Noun

res m pl

1. small of the back
   • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala (ed.), A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus. Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 191:

     reerás primeiramente os lombos ou as r?es do cavalo

     you will first shave the horse's back and the smalls of the back

   Synonyms: cadrís, lombo

Derived terms

• derrear

Related terms

• ril

References

• “re_es” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “r?es” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “res” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “res” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “res” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Etymology

For the expected *r?s, remodelled on a new oblique stem *r?j-, from Proto-Italic *reis, from Proto-Indo-European *reh?ís (“wealth, goods”).

Cognate to Old Persian [Term?] (/r?y-/, “paradise, wealth”), Avestan ????????????-? (r?y-, “paradise, wealth”), Sanskrit ?? (raí, “property. wealth”), ??? (rayí, “stuff, material, property, goods”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re?s/, [re?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /res/, [r?s]

Noun

r?s f (genitive re?); fifth declension

1. thing, object, stuff

2. matter, issue, subject, topic
   • a. 149 BC, Cato the Elder (attributed quote)

3. affair, event
4. story, history
5. state, republic, commonwealth
   • c. early 5th century AD, attributed to Ennius by Augustinus in De Civitate Dei; Book II, Chapter XXI

6. deed
7. circumstances

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• re?pse
• reus
• r?cula/r?scula
• rem ac? tetigist?
• r?s, n?n verba (“deeds, not words”)
• re?lis
• r?s adi?dic?ta
• r?s pr?v?ta
• r?s p?blica/r?sp?blica
• r?s i?dic?ta
• in medi?s r?s

Descendants

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “r?s”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 100, page 287

Further reading

• res in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• res in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• res in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• res in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• res in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• res in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• res in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?res/, [?res]

Etymology 1

From Latin r?s (“thing”).

Noun

res f (plural reses)

1. head of quadrupedal cattle or game
2. (Latin America) bovine animal

Derived terms

• pancita de res
• resero

Etymology 2

Plural of re.

Noun

res m pl

1. plural of re

Further reading

• “res” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Verb

res

1. imperative of resa

Anagrams

• ers, ser

Westrobothnian

Etymology

cf Old Norse hreistr, Norwegian reist

Noun

res n or m

1. guts; offal, scales of fish

Related terms

• fiskres
• rees
• rest

Wolof

Noun

res (definite form res wi)

1. liver