different between infanticide vs manslaughter

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English mansla?ter, manslauter, equivalent to man +? slaughter, or taken as an adaptation of Old English mannslieht, mannsleaht (“homicide”), from mann (“man, person”) +? slieht, sleaht (“stroke, slaying”), see manslaught. Cognate with Scots manslauchter (“homicide”). Compare also Old Frisian monslaga (“murder”).

Noun

manslaughter (countable and uncountable, plural manslaughters)

1. (obsolete) The slaying of a human being.
2. (law) The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger; considered less culpable than murder, but more culpable than justifiable homicide.

Derived terms

Related terms

• self-slaughter

Translations

Further reading

• manslaughter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• manslaughter at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• slaughterman