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.
Pronunciation
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Noun
matricide (countable and uncountable, plural matricides)
Translations
killing of one's mother
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person who kills their mother
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Anagrams
French
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Further reading
- “matricide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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