[ˈhɛkətuːm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen
(e.g: After Pythagoras discovered his fundamental theorem he sacrificed a hecatomb of oxen)


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Origin:
late 16th century: via Latin from Greek hekatombē (from hekaton ‘hundred’ + bous ‘ox’)