hecatomb
英 ['hekətuːm]
美['hɛkə,tom]
- n. 大屠杀；百牲祭
英英释意
- 1. a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen
英文词源
- hecatomb (n.)
- 1590s, from Greek hekatombe "offering of 100 oxen," but generally "a great public sacrifice," from hekaton "one hundred" (perhaps from hen, neuter of eis "one" + *katon "hundred") + bous "ox." The first month of the Attic calendar (corresponding to July-August) was Hekatombaion, in which sacrifices were made.