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matricide

noun

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.

  1. derived from mātricīda
  2. borrowed from matricide

Definitions

  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.

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Derived

matricidal

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA