English Explanatory Dictionary

infanticide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The murder of an infant.
  2. The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
  3. 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 killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.
noun
  1. The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/ En-us-infanticide.ogg

Word forms

infanticide infanticides

Etymology

From French infanticide, from Latin īnfanticīdium. By surface analysis, infant + -i- + -cide.

Related words

filicide genocide homicide matricide neonaticide patricide prolicide regicide suicide uxoricide

Derived words

autoinfanticide infanticidal infanticider

Translations

Armenian: որդեսպանություն Old Armenian: որդեսպանութիւն Chinese Mandarin: 殺嬰 /杀婴 Dutch: kindermoord Dutch: kinderdoding Dutch: infanticide Esperanto: infanmurdo Finnish: lapsenmurha French: infanticide German: Filizid German: Infantizid German: Kindesmord German: Kindsmord German: Kindermord German: Kindestötung Greek: παιδοκτονία Greek: τεκνοκτονία Hindi: शिशु वध Hindi: शिशु हत्या Hungarian: gyermekgyilkosság Icelandic: barnsmorð Japanese: 子殺し Korean: 유아 살해 Macedonian: чедоубиство Portuguese: filicídio Portuguese: gnaticídio Russian: детоуби́йство Serbo-Croatian: čedoùbōjstvo Serbo-Croatian: čedomórstvo Serbo-Croatian: čedoubistvo Slovene: detomor Spanish: filicidio Swedish: barnamord Urdu: بچہ کشی Volapük: lönacilisenan
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