Etymology
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From infant + -cide.
Pronunciation
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infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)
- The murder of an infant.
- The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
- (law, Canada) 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.
- The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
- (zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.
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Translations
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murder of an infant
- Armenian: մանկասպանություն (mankaspanutʿyun)
- Old Armenian: մանկասպանութիւն (mankaspanutʿiwn)
- Belarusian: дзетазабо́йства n (dzjetazabójstva), інфантыцы́д m (infantycýd)
- Bulgarian: детеуби́йство n (deteubíjstvo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 殺嬰／杀婴 (zh) (shāyīng)
- Czech: infanticida (cs) f
- Dutch: kindermoord (nl) f, kinderdoding (nl) f, infanticide (nl) f
- Finnish: lapsenmurha (fi)
- French: infanticide (fr) m
- Galician: infanticidio m
- German: Infantizid (de) m, Kindesmord (de) m, Kindsmord (de) m, Kindermord m, Kindestötung (de) f
- Greek: βρεφοκτονία (el) f (vrefoktonía)
- Hungarian: csecsemőgyilkosság (hu)
- Icelandic: barnsmorð n
- Ido: infantocido (io)
- Japanese: 子殺し (こごろし, kogoroshi)
- Korean: 영아 살해(嬰兒殺害) (yeong'a salhae)
- Latin: īnfanticīdium n
- Macedonian: чедоубиство n (čedoubistvo), чедоморство (čedomorstvo)
- Persian: قاتل بچه جدیدالولاده
- Polish: dzieciobójstwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: infanticídio (pt) m
- Russian: детоуби́йство (ru) n (detoubíjstvo), инфантици́д (ru) m (infanticíd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: инфантѝцӣд m, чедомо́рство n
- Roman: infantìcīd (sh) m, čedomórstvo (sh) n
- Slovak: infanticída f
- Slovene: detomor m
- Spanish: infanticidio (es) m
- Swedish: barnamord (sv) n
- Telugu: శిశుహత్య (te) (śiśuhatya)
- Ukrainian: дітовби́вство n (ditovbývstvo), інфантици́д m (infantycýd)
- Volapük: cililisasen (cf. cilil (vo))
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murder of one's child
- Armenian: որդեսպանություն (hy) (ordespanutʿyun)
- Old Armenian: որդեսպանութիւն (ordespanutʿiwn)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: kindermoord (nl) f, kinderdoding (nl) f, infanticide (nl) f
- Esperanto: infanmurdo
- Finnish: lapsenmurha (fi)
- French: infanticide (fr) m
- German: Filizid m, Infantizid (de) m, Kindesmord (de) m, Kindsmord (de) m, Kindermord m, Kindestötung (de) f
- Greek: παιδοκτονία (el) f (paidoktonía), τεκνοκτονία f (teknoktonía)
- Hungarian: gyermekgyilkosság (hu)
- Icelandic: barnsmorð n
- Japanese: 子殺し (こごろし, kogoroshi)
- Korean: 유아 살해 (yua salhae)
- Macedonian: чедоубиство n (čedoubistvo)
- Portuguese: filicídio (pt) m, gnaticídio m
- Russian: детоуби́йство (ru) n (detoubíjstvo)
- Serbo-Croatian: čedoùbōjstvo (sh) m, čedomórstvo (sh) n, čedoubistvo
- Slovene: detomor m
- Spanish: filicidio (es) m
- Swedish: barnamord (sv) n
- Volapük: lönacilisenan
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person who has killed a child
- Armenian: մանկասպան (hy) (mankaspan), որդեսպան (hy) (ordespan), տղայասպան (hy) (tġayaspan)
- Old Armenian: մանկասպան (mankaspan), որդեսպան (ordespan), տղայասպան (tłayaspan)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: kindermoordenaar (nl) m, kindermoordenares f
- Estonian: lapsetapja
- Finnish: lapsenmurhaaja
- French: infanticide (fr) m or f
- Galician: infanticida m or f
- German: Kindesmörder m, Kindesmörderin f, Kindsmörder m, Kindsmörderin f, Kindermörder (de) m, Kindermörderin (de) f
- Hungarian: gyermekgyilkos (hu), csecsemőgyilkos
- Icelandic: barnsmorðingi n
- Macedonian: чедоубиец n (čedoubiec)
- Polish: dzieciobójca (pl) m, dzieciobójczyni (pl) f
- Portuguese: infanticida (pt) m or f
- Russian: детоуби́йца (ru) m or f (detoubíjca)
- Spanish: infanticida m or f
- Swedish: barnamördare (sv) c, barnamörderska (sv) c (female)
- Volapük: cilisasenan, cilihisasenan (male), cilijisasenan (female), lönacilisasenan, lönacilihisasenan (male, his own child), lönacilijisasenan (female, her own child)
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killing of a young, immature animal
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