different between feticide vs infanticide

English

Alternative forms

• foeticide

Etymology

fetus +? -cide or fetus +? -icide, from French -cide, from Latin -cida (“cutter, killer”), from -cid (combining form of caed? (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”) (used for form agent nouns).

Noun

feticide (countable and uncountable, plural feticides)

1. An abortion, specifically, the killing of a fetus. [from 19th century]
   • 1878, H. Gibbons, "On Feticide" in Transactions of the Session of the Medical Society of the State of California vol. 8; J. Anthony & Co., Printers; page 209:

     Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase.

2. One who kills a fetus.

Translations

English

Etymology

From infant +? -cide.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?n?fænt?sa?d/

Noun

infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)

1. The murder of an infant.
2. The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
3. The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
4. (zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.

Related terms

• infanticidal

Translations

See also

• homicide
• filicide, neonaticide, prolicide
• genocide
• matricide
• patricide
• regicide
• suicide
• uxoricide

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Noun

infanticide f

1. plural of infanticida

Anagrams

• nidificante