From carnifex (“executioner, tormentor”) + -īna.
carnificīna f (genitive carnificīnae); first declension
- the office of executioner
- capital punishment
- torture, torment
First-declension noun.
- “carnificina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “carnificina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Learned borrowing from Latin carnificīna.
- Hyphenation: car‧ni‧fi‧ci‧na
carnificina f (plural carnificinas)
- massacre, carnage, butchery