French - Turkish
Definition of hécatombe in French Turkish dictionary
- [la] kıyım, kırım
French - English
Definition of hécatombe in French English dictionary
- {n} hecatomb
- Hence loosely, any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things; a large amount
- In ancient Greece or Rome, a great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen
- {n} a sacrifice of an hundred oxen
- A religious sacrifice of 100 animals, or any mass slaughter
- a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen
- {i} public sacrifice and banquet in ancient Rome or Greece that involved the mass killing of 100 cattle or oxen; large sacrifice
- A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims