uxoricide
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From French uxoricide[1] or Latin uxor + English -icide.[2]
Noun edit
uxoricide (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 edit
a man who kills his wife
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Etymology 2 edit
From French uxoricide[1] or Latin uxōricīdium.[2]
Noun edit
uxoricide (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 edit
Translations edit
the 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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
uxoricide