köken: From Völker + Mord. Occasional use from at least 1759; in the Napoleonic era popularised as a calque of the French revolutionary term populicide (1792). The German was calqued into English as folk-murdering by 1892. Both the French and the German may have influenced the younger genocide (1944).
Wie lange noch werden sie bey ihren Unterthanen die Todsünde eines Menschenmords kriminalisch bestrafen, und selbst -- Völkermord begehen?
köken: From Latin populus (“community; people; nation”) + French -cide (suffix meaning ‘killing’). The word populicides was coined by the French journalist and revolutionary François-Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) in 1795 to describe the massacre of 117,000 farmers in the Vendée region during the French Revolution.