matricide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A person who kills his or her mother.

Countable; Uncountable

"Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother."
"Here the interest was the more compelling because the case of Orestes was unique—not only because matricide was an almost unknown crime, but also because the gods themselves participate in an action in which the slain mother had herself slain the father of her son."
"Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago."

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.

matricides (plural)

matricidal

filicide genocide homicide infanticide patricide regicide suicide uxoricide