Matricide
noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The killing of one's mother. countable, uncountable
"Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother."
- 2 the murder of your mother wordnet
- 3 A person who kills his or her mother. countable, uncountable
"Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago."
- 4 a person who murders their mother wordnet
Example
More examples"Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother."
Etymology
From French matricide, from Latin mātricīda (“person who kills his own mother”) and mātricīdium (“the murder of one's mother”). By surface analysis, matri- + -cide.
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