infanticide

English

WOTD – 21 September 2011

Etymology

From infant +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/

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Noun

infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)

1. The murder of an infant.
2. The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
3. (law, Canada) The criminal offence of killing of a newborn, committed by its mother while psychologically disturbed by the effects of childbirth or lactation, not regarded as murder.
4. The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
5. (zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.

Related terms

• infanticidal

Translations

murder of an infant

• Armenian: մանկասպանություն (mankaspanutʻyun)

  Old Armenian: մանկասպանութիւն (mankaspanutʻiwn)

• Belarusian: дзетазабо́йства n (dzjetazabójstva), інфантыцы́д m (infantycýd)
• Bulgarian: детеуби́йство n (deteubíjstvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殺嬰／杀婴 (zh) (shāyīng)

• Czech: infanticida (cs) f
• Dutch: kindermoord (nl) f, kinderdoding (nl) f, infanticide (nl) f
• Finnish: lapsenmurha (fi)
• French: infanticide (fr) m
• Galician: infanticidio m
• German: Infantizid (de) m, Kindesmord (de) m, Kindsmord (de) m, Kindermord m, Kindestötung (de) f
• Greek: βρεφοκτονία (el) f (vrefoktonía)
• Hungarian: csecsemőgyilkosság (hu)
• Icelandic: barnsmorð n
• Ido: infantocido (io)
• Japanese: 子殺し (こごろし, kogoroshi)
• Korean: 영아 살해(嬰兒殺害) (yeong'a salhae)
• Latin: īnfanticīdium n
• Macedonian: чедоубиство n (čedoubistvo), чедоморство (čedomorstvo)
• Persian: قاتل بچه جدیدالولاده
• Polish: dzieciobójstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: infanticídio (pt) m
• Russian: детоуби́йство (ru) n (detoubíjstvo), инфантици́д (ru) m (infanticíd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: инфантѝцӣд m, чедомо́рство n

  Roman: infantìcīd (sh) m, čedomórstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: infanticída f
• Slovene: detomor m
• Spanish: infanticidio (es) m
• Swedish: barnamord (sv) n
• Telugu: శిశుహత్య (te) (śiśuhatya)
• Ukrainian: дітовби́вство n (ditovbývstvo), інфантици́д m (infantycýd)
• Volapük: cililisasen (cf. cilil (vo))

murder of one's child

• Armenian: որդեսպանություն (hy) (ordespanutʻyun)

  Old Armenian: որդեսպանութիւն (ordespanutʻiwn)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: kindermoord (nl) f, kinderdoding (nl) f, infanticide (nl) f
• Esperanto: infanmurdo
• Finnish: lapsenmurha (fi)
• French: infanticide (fr) m
• German: Filizid m, Infantizid (de) m, Kindesmord (de) m, Kindsmord (de) m, Kindermord m, Kindestötung (de) f
• Greek: παιδοκτονία (el) f (paidoktonía), τεκνοκτονία f (teknoktonía)
• Hungarian: gyermekgyilkosság (hu)
• Icelandic: barnsmorð n
• Japanese: 子殺し (こごろし, kogoroshi)
• Korean: 유아 살해 (yua salhae)
• Macedonian: чедоубиство n (čedoubistvo)
• Portuguese: filicídio (pt) m, gnaticídio m
• Russian: детоуби́йство (ru) n (detoubíjstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: čedoùbōjstvo (sh) m, čedomórstvo (sh) n, čedoubistvo
• Slovene: detomor m
• Spanish: filicidio (es) m
• Swedish: barnamord (sv) n
• Volapük: lönacilisenan

person who has killed a child

• Armenian: մանկասպան (hy) (mankaspan), որդեսպան (hy) (ordespan), տղայասպան (hy) (tġayaspan)

  Old Armenian: մանկասպան (mankaspan), որդեսպան (ordespan), տղայասպան (tłayaspan)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: kindermoordenaar (nl) m, kindermoordenares f
• Estonian: lapsetapja
• Finnish: lapsenmurhaaja
• French: infanticide (fr) m or f
• Galician: infanticida m or f
• German: Kindesmörder m, Kindesmörderin f, Kindsmörder m, Kindsmörderin f, Kindermörder (de) m, Kindermörderin (de) f
• Hungarian: gyermekgyilkos (hu), csecsemőgyilkos
• Icelandic: barnsmorðingi n
• Macedonian: чедоубиец n (čedoubiec)
• Polish: dzieciobójca (pl) m, dzieciobójczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: infanticida (pt) m or f
• Russian: детоуби́йца (ru) m or f (detoubíjca)
• Spanish: infanticida m or f
• Swedish: barnamördare (sv) c, barnamörderska (sv) c (female)
• Volapük: cilisasenan, cilihisasenan (male), cilijisasenan (female), lönacilisasenan, lönacilihisasenan (male, his own child), lönacilijisasenan (female, her own child)

killing of a young, immature animal

• German: Infantizid (de) m

See also

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

 

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.sid/

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Late Latin īnfanticīdium, from Latin īnfāns (“child”) + caedō (“to kill”).

Noun

infanticide m (plural infanticides)

1. infanticide (murder of an infant)

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Late Latin īnfanticīda, from Latin īnfāns (“child”) + caedō (“to kill”).

Noun

infanticide m or f (plural infanticides)

1. infanticide (murderer of a child, person who has committed infanticide)

Further reading

• “infanticide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.fan.tiˈt͡ʃi.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: in‧fan‧ti‧cì‧de

Noun

infanticide f pl

1. feminine plural of infanticida

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