uxoricide

English

WOTD – 19 July 2006

Etymology

From Latin uxōricīdium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/
• Hyphenation: ux‧or‧i‧cide

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Noun

uxoricide (countable and uncountable, plural uxoricides)

1. One who murders his or her wife.
2. The murdering of one's own wife.
   • 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).

   • 2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, vol. 37, no. 12:

     In order for someone to green-light a movie of this story, they’d need to have at least background knowledge of the sexual shenanigans of Sartre and Beauvoir, and of Althusser’s uxoricide – though not necessarily a close acquaintance with their published work.

Antonyms

• mariticide (“murder of one's husband”)

Hypernyms

• homicide (“murder of a human being”)
• mariticide (“murder of one's spouse”)

Derived terms

• uxoricidal

Translations

a man who kills his wife

• Estonian: naisetapja
• French: uxoricide (fr) m
• German: Gattinnenmörder m
• Greek: συζυγοκτόνος m (syzygoktónos)
• Italian: uxoricida (it)
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• Polish: żonobójca (pl) m
• Portuguese: uxoricida (pt) m or f
• Russian: женоуби́йца (ru) m (ženoubíjca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: женоубица m

  Roman: ženoubica m

• Spanish: uxoricida (es) m or f

the killing of one's wife

• Esperanto: edzinmurdo
• Estonian: naisetapp
• Finnish: vaimonmurha
• French: uxoricide (fr) m
• German: Gattinnenmord m
• Greek: συζυγοκτονία f (syzygoktonía)
• Ido: spozinocido
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• Italian: uxoricidio (it) m
• Polish: żonobójstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: uxoricídio (pt) m
• Russian: женоуби́йство (ru) n (ženoubíjstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: женоубиство n

  Roman: ženoubistvo n

• Spanish: uxoricidio (es) m

See also

• familicide (“murder of one's family”)
• fratricide (“murder of one's brother”)
• infanticide (“murder of one's child”)
• parricide (“murder of one's relative”)
• patricide (“murder of one's father”)
• matricide (“murder of one's mother”)
• sororicide (“murder of one's sister”)
• suicide (“the act of killing oneself”)
• uxorious (“devoted to one's wife”)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Adjective

uxoricide

1. feminine plural of uxoricida