- A large-scale sacrifice or slaughter.
- A sacrifice to the ancient Greek and Roman gods consisting originally of 100 oxen or cattle.
[Latin hecatombē, from Greek hekatombē : hekaton, hundred + -bē, oxen.]
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[Latin hecatombē, from Greek hekatombē : hekaton, hundred + -bē, oxen.]
noun
hecatomb in Greece, originally the sacrifice of a hundred oxen (hekaton bous); the term came to be used even in Homer of any great sacrifice of animals. Hekatombaion was the name of a month at Athens, ‘the time when hecatombs are offered’.
In Ancient Greece, a Hecatomb (Ancient Greek ἑκατόμβη / hekatómbê) was the sacrifice to the gods of 100 cattle (hecaton = one hundred).
In the Iliad hecatombs are described formulaically. The following is one instance, from Samuel Butler's translation:
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Nederlands (Dutch)
hecatombe (offeringen in grote getale)
Français (French)
n. - hécatombe
Deutsch (German)
n. - großes öffentliches Opfer (im alten Rom oder Griechenland), Großzahl von Opfern
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (θρησκ., μτφ.) εκατόμβη
Português (Portuguese)
n. - hecatombe (f)
Русский (Russian)
гекатомба, массовое убийство людей, несметное число
Español (Spanish)
n. - hecatombe
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hekatomb
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
大杀戮, 大献祭, 大屠杀
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 大殺戮, 大獻祭, 大屠殺
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 황소 백 마리의 제물, 대학살
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) ذبيحه مئه ثور عند قدماء اليونان والرومان, مجزرة
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - טקס זביחת 001 פרים ביוון וברומא העתיקות, טבח
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