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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hecatomb /ˈhɛkətuːm/

▶noun (in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen.

– origin C16: via L. from Gk hekatombē (from hekaton ‘hundred’ + bous ‘ox’).

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