Etymology

matricide

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Today it means: The killing of one's mother. Full definition →

French matricide ← Latin mātricīda
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  1. Latin · derived frommātricīda“person who kills his own mother”
  2. French · borrowed frommatricide
  3. English todaymatricide

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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