English Explanatory Dictionary

matricide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The killing of one's mother.
  2. A person who kills his or her mother.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

matricide matricides

Etymology

From French matricide, from Latin mātricīda (“person who kills his own mother”) and mātricīdium (“the murder of one's mother”). By surface analysis, matri- + -cide.

Related words

filicide genocide homicide infanticide patricide regicide suicide uxoricide

Derived words

matricidal
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