femicide

• feminicide

From Latin fēm(ina) (“woman”) +‎ -icide, by analogy with genocide and homicide.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛmɪsaɪd/

femicide (countable and uncountable, plural femicides)

1. The killing of a woman or girl because of her sex, especially when motivated by misogyny. [from 19th c.]
   • 2020 March 7, Tom Phillips, “'This is our feminist spring': millions of Mexican women prepare to strike over femicides”, in The Guardian‎:

     But when Mexican feminists hit the streets on Valentine’s Day to denounce their country’s worsening femicide crisis, she saw a chance to ensure her mother’s life and death were remembered.

• womanslaughter

• transfemicide

• gynocide

• femicide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

femicide f (plural femicides, diminutive femicidetje n)

1. femicide

   Synonyms: vrouwenmoord, feminicide, gynocide