internecine
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin internecīnus (“deadly”), from inter (“between”) and necō (“to kill”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɪntəˈniːsaɪn/, /-sɪn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪntɚˈnɛsin/, /ˌɪntɚˈnisin/, /ˌɪntɚˈnɛsən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
Adjective edit
internecine (not comparable)
- Mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare.
- Internecine strife in Gaza claimed its most senior victim yesterday.
- Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship.
- The Mongol people were plagued by internecine conflict until Genghis Khan unified them.
- c. 1900, Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain, published 2010:
- During the year of my engagement — 1869 — while I was out on the lecture platform, the daily letter that came for me generally brought me news from the front — by which expression I refer to the internecine war that was always going on in a friendly way between these two orthographists about the spelling of words.
- 2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
- Having survived “The Long Night,” Daenerys will now be turning her attention back to the problem that originally vexed her: Cersei Lannister. It will be interesting to see how the show tries to raise the stakes of an internecine squabble between competing monarchs when compared to an existential threat to humanity’s very existence, but this series has always excelled when it goes deep on the machinations of political chicanery.
Translations edit
mutually destructive
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characterized by struggle within a group
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