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uxoricide en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/
Etymology
Borrowed from French uxoricide or Latin uxor + English -icide.
Meanings
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One who murders one's wife.
Forms
Antonyms
viricide · mariticide
Hypernyms
homicide · mariticide
Translations (15)
ca uxoricida (a man who kills his wife) · it uxoricida (a man who kills his wife) · el συζυγοκτόνος (a man who kills his wife) · pt uxoricida (a man who kills his wife) · et naisetapja (a man who kills his wife) · es uxoricida (a man who kills his wife) · rgn uxorizìda (a man who kills his wife) · ru женоуби́йца (a man who kills his wife) · sh ženoubica (a man who kills his wife) · de Gattinnenmörder (a man who kills his wife) · ga marfóir mná céile (a man who kills his wife) · fr uxoricide (a man who kills his wife) · sh женоубица (a man who kills his wife) · pl żonobójca (a man who kills his wife) · sv hustrumördare (a man who kills his wife)
uxoricide en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/
Etymology
From French uxoricide or Latin uxōricīdium.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The murdering of one's own wife.
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.
2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12: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:
Forms
Deriveds
uxoricidal
Relateds
maritorious · patricide · familicide · sororicide · parricide · matricide · fratricide · uxorious · suicide · infanticide
Translations (17)
io spozinocido (the killing of one's wife) · fr uxoricide (the killing of one's wife) · es uxoricidio (the killing of one's wife) · pl żonobójstwo (the killing of one's wife) · sh ženoubistvo (the killing of one's wife) · de Gattinnenmord (the killing of one's wife) · fi vaimonmurha (the killing of one's wife) · pt uxoricídio (the killing of one's wife) · ca uxoricidi (the killing of one's wife) · sh женоубиство (the killing of one's wife) · it uxoricidio (the killing of one's wife) · eo edzinmurdo (the killing of one's wife) · sv hustrumord (the killing of one's wife) · et naisetapp (the killing of one's wife) · el συζυγοκτονία (the killing of one's wife) · ru женоуби́йство (the killing of one's wife) · rgn uxorizìdi (the killing of one's wife)