ETYM French carnage, Late Lat. carnaticum tribute of animals, flesh of animals, from Latin caro, carnis, flesh. Related to Carnal.
1. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.
2. Flesh of slain animals or men.

ETYM Latin hecatombe, Greek; hecto hundred + bous ox: cf. French hécatombe.
A great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen.
Large sacrifice or slaughter; killing of one hundred animals or people.
Sacrifice of one hundred animals; wholesale slaughter.