matricide

English

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.

Noun

matricide (countable and uncountable, plural matricides)

1. The killing of one's mother.

   Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.

2. A person who kills his or her mother.

   Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.

Translations

killing of one's mother

• Czech: matkovražda f
• Finnish: äidinmurha
• French: matricide (fr) m
• German: Muttermord (de) m
• Greek: μητροκτονία (el) f (mitroktonía)
• Latin: mātricīdium n
• Polish: matkobójstwo n
• Portuguese: matricídio (pt) m
• Romanian: matricid (ro) n
• Russian: матереуби́йство (ru) n (matereubíjstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: materoubistvo ?, majkoubistvo ?

• Swedish: modermord n

person who kills their mother

• Armenian: մայրասպան (hy) (mayraspan)
• Czech: matkovrah (cs) m
• French: matricide (fr) m or f
• German: Muttermörder m, Muttermörderin f
• Greek: μητροκτόνος (el) m or f (mitroktónos)
• Irish: marfóir máthar m
• Latin: mātricīda f
• Polish: matkobójca (pl) m, matkobójczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: matricida (pt) m or f
• Russian: матереуби́йца (ru) m or f (matereubíjca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: materoubica ?, majkoubica ?

• Swedish: modermördare c

See also

• filicide
• genocide
• homicide
• infanticide
• patricide
• regicide
• suicide
• uxoricide

Anagrams

• diametric

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

matricide m (plural matricides)

1. matricide (crime)

Noun

matricide m or f by sense (plural matricides)

1. matricide (person)

Further reading

• “matricide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.