matricide
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French matricide, from Latin mātricīda (“person who kills his own mother”) and mātricīdium (“the murder of one's mother”). By surface analysis, matri- + -cide.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]matricide (countable and uncountable, plural matricides)
- The killing of one's mother.
- Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.
- A person who kills his or her mother.
- Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.
Translations
[edit]killing of one's mother
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person who kills their mother
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See also
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]matricide m (plural matricides)
- matricide (crime)
Noun
[edit]matricide m or f by sense (plural matricides)
- matricide (person)
Further reading
[edit]- “matricide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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