different between uxoricide vs matricide

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 French matricide, from Latin m?tric?da (“person who kills his own mother”) and m?tric?dium (“the murder of one's mother”). Surface etymology is matri- +? -cide.

Noun

matricide (countable and uncountable, plural matricides)

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.

Translations

See also

• filicide
• genocide
• homicide
• infanticide
• patricide
• regicide
• suicide
• uxoricide

Anagrams

• diametric