Using the same logics, one could say that:
- 'nice' means 'ignorant', - 'to travel' means 'to suffer torture',
and a lot of other interesting (but incorrect) ideas about what words mean.
- 'nice' means 'ignorant', - 'to travel' means 'to suffer torture',
and a lot of other interesting (but incorrect) ideas about what words mean.
So do I.
Nice comes from nescius 'ignorant'.
Travel according to the most common version comes from tripalium, a torture device.
If you assume that genocide must be about killing because it comes from a Latin word for killing, then being nice should be about being ignorant because it comes from a Latin word for ignorant.
Those examples I’m guessing have no record of those who coined them, genocide however appears to have such a record.