different between uxoricide vs uxorious

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

Latin uxorius (“of or pertaining to a wife”) from uxor (“wife”), late 16th c..

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?s???.i.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?s??.i.?s/, /???z??.i.?s/

Adjective

uxorious (comparative more uxorious, superlative most uxorious)

1. Very devoted and possibly submissive to one's wife.
   • 1991, The Advertiser, 12 Oct.,

     She was the cross her cuckolded, incompatible husband had to bear, and he was—beneath those fantastic uniforms—the pathetic, uxorious human aggregate of love and good intentions, which, quite frankly, bored her most of the time.

Synonyms

• doting

Coordinate terms

• maritorious

Related terms

• uxorial
• uxoricide

Translations