"This is a list of scholarly and international legal definitions of genocide, a word coined with genos (Greek: birth, kind, race) and an English suffix -cide by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. The precise etymology of the word however, is a compound of two ancient Greek words \u03B3\u03AD\u03BD\u03BF\u03C2 (birth, genus, kind) and the word \u03BA\u03C4\u03B5\u03AF\u03BD\u03C9 (murder, kill, massacre)."@en .