Having looked at the Latin dictionaries, I blush to see how wrong I was about internecine. Check out Lewis & Short's Latin dictionary at perseus.tufts.edu, unde

Having looked at the Latin dictionaries, I blush to see how wrong I was about internecine. Check out Lewis & Short's Latin dictionary at perseus.tufts.edu, under internecine, internecio, interneco. But indeed if I wanted to know about Kristallnacht, I don't think that I really would need the etymology of "Nacht".