The story
- Latin · derived frommātricīda“person who kills his own mother”
- French · borrowed frommatricide
- 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.