sororicide
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Latin sorōricīdium (“killing of one’s sister”), from soror (“sister”). Equivalent to + -cide.
Noun edit
sororicide (countable and uncountable, plural sororicides)
- 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).
Coordinate terms edit
- (killing of brother): fratricide
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
killing of one’s sister
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Etymology 2 edit
Latin sorōricīda (“one who kills his sister”), from soror (“sister”). Equivalent to + -cide.
Noun edit
sororicide (plural sororicides)
Coordinate terms edit
- (brother killer): fratricide
Translations edit
sister killer
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Translations edit
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Learned borrowing from Late Latin sorōricīdium.
Noun edit
sororicide m (plural sororicides)
- sororicide (crime of killing one's sister)
Etymology 2 edit
Learned borrowing from Latin sorōricīda.
Noun edit
sororicide m (plural sororicides)
- sororicide (person who commits this crime)
Adjective edit
sororicide (plural sororicides)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “sororicide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.