different between altruisticfilicide vs uxoricide

English

Etymology

From Latin ux?ric?dium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?s??.???sa?d/
• Hyphenation: ux?or?i?cide

Noun

uxoricide (countable and uncountable, plural uxoricides)

1. One who murders his or her wife.
2. The murdering of one's own wife.
   • 2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, vol. 37, no. 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.

Antonyms

• mariticide, viricide (“murder of one's husband”)

Hypernyms

• homicide (“murder of a human being”)
• mariticide (“murder of one's spouse”)

Derived terms

• uxoricidal

Translations

See also

• familicide (“murder of one's family”)
• fratricide (“murder of one's brother”)
• infanticide (“murder of one's child”)
• parricide (“murder of one's relative”)
• patricide (“murder of one's father”)
• matricide (“murder of one's mother”)
• sororicide (“murder of one's sister”)
• suicide (“the act of killing oneself”)
• uxorious (“devoted to one's wife”)

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Adjective

uxoricide

1. feminine plural of uxoricida