carnage

The story

1. Vulgar Latin · derived from*carnaticum“slaughter of animals”
2. Middle French · borrowed fromcarnage
3. English todaycarnage

Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -age.