nepoticidal

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adjective

Of or pertaining to nepoticide.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivenepoticidal (comparative more nepoticidal, superlative most nepoticidal)

comparative more nepoticidal · superlative most nepoticidal

  1. Of or pertaining to nepoticide.

    Taizong's failure fooled no one. Indeed, one of Taizong's own sons may well have been unhinged by his father's obvious fratricidal and nepoticidal actions. These personal considerations directly affected Taizong's policy decisions, and thus warrant some discussion.

    2008, Peter Lorge, “The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao Border”, in Don J. Wyatt, editor, Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 59–74 at 67

Origin

  1. Latinnepōs, nepōtis“nephew”
  2. Englishnepoticidal

From nepoticide + -al, from oblique stem of Latin nepōs, nepōtis (“nephew”) + -icidal.

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APA

nepoticidal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nepoticidal

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Chicago

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