English Explanatory Dictionary

Fordicidia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An ancient Roman festival of fertility, held two days after the Ides of April (April 15).

Word forms

Fordicidia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Fordicīdia, from forda (“pregnant cow”) + -cīdia, plural of -cīdium (“denoting an act of slaughter”).

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