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# The BFD Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-220/
- Published: 2020-09-02T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-31T20:08:21.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

The word for today is…

internecine (adj) – 1\. Of or relating to struggle within a nation, organisation, or group.

1. Mutually destructive; ruinous or fatal to both sides.
2. Characterised by bloodshed or carnage.

Source : T[he Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/internecine?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 1660s, “deadly, destructive,” from Latin internecinus “very deadly, murderous, destructive,” from internecare “kill or destroy,” from inter + necare “kill” (from PIE root \*nek- “death”).

Considered by OED as misinterpreted in Johnson’s Dictionary \[1755\], which defined it as “endeavouring mutual destruction,” but a notion of “mutually destructive” has been imported into the word in English because in English inter- usually conveys the idea of “mutual.” The Latin prefix is said to have had here only an intensive sense; “the Latin word meant merely of or to extermination … without implying that of both parties” \[Fowler\].

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