infanticidium

Latin

Etymology

From īnfāns (“infant”) +‎ -cīdium (“killing, slaughter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.fan.tiˈkiː.di.um/, [ĩːfän̪t̪ɪˈkiːd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.fan.tiˈt͡ʃi.di.um/, [iɱfän̪t̪iˈt͡ʃiːd̪ium]

Noun

īnfanticīdium n (genitive īnfanticīdiī or īnfanticīdī); second declension

1. child-murder, infanticide

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnfanticīdium	īnfanticīdia
Genitive	īnfanticīdiī īnfanticīdī1	īnfanticīdiōrum
Dative	īnfanticīdiō	īnfanticīdiīs
Accusative	īnfanticīdium	īnfanticīdia
Ablative	īnfanticīdiō	īnfanticīdiīs
Vocative	īnfanticīdium	īnfanticīdia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “infanticidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• infanticidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.