Genocide was coined by Lemkin to name an old practice given modern form

Evidence

By “genocide” we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. This new word, coined by the author to denote an old practice in its modern development, is made from the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin tide (killing) (Raphael Lemkin, 1944:79) … This statement continues to inform twentieth-century constructions of genocide. Here Lemkin displaces genocide into the past as “an old practice” at the same time that he makes it an essential part of our definition of high modernity. One of the marks of the modern, for Lemkin, is “a long period of evolution in civilized society” from wars of extermination against populations to wars against nation-states and armies (p. 80). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 255

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the coinage ‘genocide’ from Greek genos and Latin -cide, and captures Lemkin’s own framing of it as old practice given modern form.
• XREF: Cross-references the vault’s CRT definitions of racialization — genocide naming marks a parallel moment of constructing a category for targeted destruction.
• QUESTION: The etymology mixes Greek genos with Latin -cide — worth verifying the hybrid coinage history and whether the Greek vs Latin registers carried rhetorical weight.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 255