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Word: Hecatomb
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century: via Latin from Greek hekatombē (from hekaton ‘hundred’ + bous ‘ox’)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈhɛkətuːm
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen
Short Definition:great public sacrifice
Examples:- After Pythagoras discovered his fundamental theorem he sacrificed a hecatomb of oxen
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