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In Ancient Greek mythology, Olethros / ˈ ɒ l ɪ ˌ θ r ɒ s / (Greek: ὄλεθρος) was the personification of havoc and probably one of the Makhai. [citation needed]Olethros translates roughly in ancient Greek to "destruction", but often with a positive connotation, as in the destruction required for and preceding renewal.
Destruktion, a term from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger; Destructive narcissism, a pathological form of narcissism; Self-destructive behaviour, a widely used phrase that conceptualises certain kinds of destructive acts as belonging to the self
There is another root, ḫ-r-m, which can mean to destroy or annihilate. [8] In the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh the verb form occurs 51 times, while the noun occurs 38 times. [9] [2] Although the word basically means something devoted or given over to God (as in Leviticus 27:28), it often refers to "a ban for utter destruction". [2]
The phrase employs delenda, the feminine singular gerundive form of the verb dēlēre ("to destroy"). [29] The gerundive (or future passive participle) delenda is a verbal adjective that may be translated as "to be destroyed".
The origin of the tale may be related to the Polovtsian leader Khan Konchak, who dates from the 12th century. [ n 1 ] In The Tale of Igor's Campaign Konchak is referred to as a koshey (slave). [ n 2 ] [ 3 ] Konchak is thought to have come/returned from Georgia (the Caucasus ) to the steppe c. 1126–1130; by c.1172 he is described in Kievan Rus ...
Genocide definitions include many scholarly and international legal definitions of genocide, [1] a word coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. [2] The word is a compound of the ancient Greek word γένος (génos, "genus", or "kind") and the Latin word caedō ("kill").
While ethnic cleansing and genocide may share the same goal and methods (e.g., forced displacement), ethnic cleansing is intended to displace a persecuted population from a given territory, while genocide is intended to destroy a group. [53] [54] Some academics consider genocide to be a subset of "murderous ethnic cleansing". [55]
Etymology [ edit ] According to the Brown–Driver–Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew אבדון ’ăḇadōn is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem אָבַד ’ăḇāḏ "perish", transitive "destroy", which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.