infanticide

English

WOTD – 21 September 2011    

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Etymology

From infant +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/ X-SAMPA: /in"f{ntIsaId/

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Noun

infanticide (plural infanticides)

1. The murder of an infant.
2. The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
3. The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
4. (zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.

Related terms

• infanticidal

Translations

the murder of an infant

• Belarusian: дзетазабойства (be) (dzjetazabójstva) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殺嬰 (cmn), 杀婴 (cmn) (shāyīng)

• Czech: infanticida (cs) f
• Dutch: kindermoord (nl) f, kinderdoding (nl) f, infanticide (nl) f
• Finnish: lapsenmurha (fi)
• French: infanticide (fr) m
• German: Kindesmord (de) m, Kindestötung (de) f
• Greek: βρεφοκτονία (el) (vrefoktonía) f

• Icelandic: barnsmorð (is) n
• Japanese: 子殺し (ja) (こごろし, kogoroshi)
• Latin: infanticidium (la) n
• Polish: dzieciobójstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: infanticídio (pt) m
• Russian: детоубийство (ru) (detoubíjstvo) n
• Spanish: infanticida (es)
• Ukrainian: дітовбивство (uk) (ditovbývstvo) n
• Volapük: cililisasen (vo)

the murder of one's child

• Esperanto: infanmurdo (eo)
• Finnish: lapsenmurha (fi)
• French: infanticide (fr) m
• German: Kindesmord (de) m
• Greek: παιδοκτονία (el) (peδoktonía) f, τεκνοκτονία (el) (teknoktonía) f
• Icelandic: barnsmorð (is) n

• Japanese: 子殺し (ja) (こごろし, kogoroshi)
• Korean: 유아 살해 (ko)
• Russian: детоубийство (ru) (detoubíjstvo) n
• Serbo-Croatian: čedoùbōjstvo (sh) m, čedomórstvo (sh) n, čedoubistvo (sh)
• Slovene: detomor (sl) m
• Spanish: filicida (es)
• Volapük: cilisasen (vo)

a person who has killed a child

• Estonian: lapsetapja (et)
• Finnish: lapsenmurhaaja (fi)
• German: Kindesmörder (de) m, Kindesmörderin (de) f
• Icelandic: barnsmorðingi (is) n
• Portuguese: infanticida (pt) m and f

• Russian: детоубийца (ru) (detoubíjca) m and f
• Spanish: infanticida (es)
• Volapük: (male or female) cilisasenan (vo), (male) cilihisasenan (vo), (female) cilijisasenan (vo)

See also

• homicide
• filicide
• genocide
• matricide
• patricide
• regicide
• suicide
• uxoricide

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Italian

Noun

infanticide f

1. Plural form of infanticida

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