infanticide

English

WOTD – 21 September 2011

Etymology

From infant +‎ -i- +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)

1. The murder of an infant.
   • 1827, Robley Dunglison, Syllabus of the Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, page 93:

     PROLICIDE […] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.

   • 1973 December 8, “Infanticide in Japan: Sign of the Times?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     A recent government survey shows that 65 per cent of the families in Japan today are nuclear families, and a report on infanticide published this year by the Criminal Sience Club of Chuo University here indicates that eight out of ten infanticides today occur in nuclear families.

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: 殺嬰 / 杀婴 (zh) (shāyīng)

• 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: 殺嬰者 / 杀婴者 (shāyīng zhě)

• 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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同類相食 / 同类相食 (zh) (tónglèixiāngshí)

• Finnish: pennun surmaaminen
• 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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