Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

uxoricide

/ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ux-or-i-cide
IPA: /ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who murders one's wife.

noun

The murdering of one's own wife.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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)."
"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from French uxoricide or Latin uxor + English -icide.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Prefix: -icide
Root: uxor, uxoricide, uxōricīdium

Usage

Inflected Forms

uxoricides (plural)

Derived Forms

uxoricidal

Frequently Paired Words

familicide fratricide infanticide parricide patricide matricide sororicide suicide

Antonyms

mariticide viricide

Questions

How do you pronounce uxoricide?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/.
What does uxoricide mean?: One who murders one's wife.
Where does uxoricide come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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