different between uxoricide vs mariticide

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

English

Etymology

From Latin maritus (“married, husband”) +? -cide, from caedere (“to kill”).

Noun

mariticide (plural mariticides)

1. The act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife.
2. A woman who has killed her husband.

Usage notes

• The more common term for the murder of a wife by her husband is uxoricide.

Synonyms

• (the killing of one’s husband): viricide

Derived terms

• mariticidal

Translations

See also

• uxoricide
• mariticide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia