uxoricide
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom French uxoricide[1] or Latin uxor + English -icide.[2]
Noun
edituxoricide (plural uxoricides)
Antonyms
edit- mariticide, viricide (“murder of one's husband”)
Hypernyms
edit- homicide (“murder of a human being”)
- mariticide (“murder of one's spouse”)
Translations
edita man who kills his wife
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Etymology 2
editFrom French uxoricide[1] or Latin uxōricīdium.[2]
Noun
edituxoricide (countable and uncountable, plural uxoricides)
- The murdering of one's own wife.
- 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).
- 2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
- In order for someone to green-light a movie of this story, they’d need to have at least background knowledge of the sexual shenanigans of Sartre and Beauvoir, and of Althusser’s uxoricide – though not necessarily a close acquaintance with their published work.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editthe killing of one's wife
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See also
edit- familicide (“murder/murderer of one's family”)
- fratricide (“murder/murderer of one's brother”)
- infanticide (“murder/murderer of one's child”)
- parricide (“murder/murderer of one's relative”)
- patricide (“murder/murderer of one's father”)
- matricide (“murder/murderer of one's mother”)
- sororicide (“murder/murderer of one's sister”)
- suicide (“the act of killing oneself/one who kills oneself”)
- uxorious (“devoted to one's wife”)
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “uxoricide”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “uxoricide”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Italian
editPronunciation
editAdjective
edituxoricide
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