Etymology

carnifex

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Today it means: An executioner. Full definition →

Latin carnifex
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromcarnifex“butcher”
  2. English todaycarnifex

From Latin carnifex (“butcher”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.