sororicide

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sororicida (“one who kills his sister”), from soror (“sister”). Equivalent to +‎ -cide.

Noun

sororicide (countable and uncountable, plural sororicides)

1. The killing of one's sister.
   • 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:

     Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).

2. A person who kills his or her sister.

Derived terms

• sororicidal

Related terms

• (killing of brother): fratricide

Translations

killing of ones sister

• Dutch: zustermoord
• French: sororicide (fr) m
• German: Schwestermord m
• Greek: αδελφοκτονία (el) f (adelfoktonía)
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• Ido: fratinocido
• Latin: sorōricīdium f
• Polish: siostrobójstwo n
• Portuguese: sororicídio (pt)
• Russian: сестроуби́йство n (sestroubíjstvo)

sister killer

• Dutch: zustermoordenaar
• French: sororicide (fr) m
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• Greek: αδελφοκτόνος (el) m or f (adelfoktónos)
• Polish: siostrobójca m, siostrobójczyni f

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• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} sestroubuistvo
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