Dictionary

filicide en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɪ.lɪ.sʌɪd/ (UK)

Etymology

From Latin fīlius (“son”), fīlia (“daughter”) + -cide.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The killing of one's own child.
   • Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew). 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:
   • it began by violating nature, and ends in filicide. (I, v) 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:
2. (countable, uncountable) A person who kills his or her own child.
   • Ned is running, panicked, […] running for the cold hard road and the sanctuary of the Brunch farm like a filicide caught in the act. 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin Books, published 2006, page 287:

Forms

Deriveds

altruistic filicide · filicidal

Relateds

infanticide · homicide · uxoricide · neonaticide · parricide · sororicide · familicide · fratricide · suicide · prolicide

Translations (17)

es filicidio (killing of one's own child) · mk чедоубиство (killing of one's own child) · pl dzieciobójca (person who kills his or her own child) · io filiocido (person who kills his or her own child) · pt filicida (person who kills his or her own child) · fr filicide (person who kills his or her own child) · fr filicide (killing of one's own child) · cs synovrah (person who kills his or her own child) · cs dcerovrah (person who kills his or her own child) · pl dzieciobójstwo (killing of one's own child) · cs synovražedkyně (person who kills his or her own child) · gl filicidio (killing of one's own child) · es filicida (person who kills his or her own child) · mk чедоубиец (person who kills his or her own child) · pl dzieciobójczyni (person who kills his or her own child) · pt filicídio (killing of one's own child) · gl filicida (person who kills his or her own child)