HECATOMB (Gr. EKarept from EKarbv, a hundred, and t3ous, an ox)

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HECATOMB (Gr. EKarept from EKarbv, a hundred, and t3ous, an ox) , originally the

sacrifice

SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

of a

hundred

HUNDRED

oxen in the religious ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans; later a large number of any

kind

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
as is seen in " kin," supra)

of animals devoted for

sacrifice

SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

. Figuratively, "

hecatomb

HECATOMB (Gr. EKarept from EKarbv, a
hundred
- HUNDRED
, and t3ous, an ox)

" is used to describe the sacrifice or destruction by

fire

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-
Teutonic
- TEUTONIC
- TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

, tempest, disease or the

sword

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-
European
- EUROPEAN
root meaning to wound)

of any large number of persons or animals; and also of the wholesale destruction of inanimate

objects

OBJECTS

, and even of mental and moral attributes.

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