matricidium

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Latin

Etymology

māter (“mother”) +‎ -cīdium

Pronunciation

Noun

mātricīdium n (genitive mātricīdiī or mātricīdī); second declension

  1. The murder of one's mother, matricide.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative mātricīdium mātricīdia
genitive mātricīdiī
mātricīdī1 		mātricīdiōrum
dative mātricīdiō mātricīdiīs
accusative mātricīdium mātricīdia
ablative mātricīdiō mātricīdiīs
vocative mātricīdium mātricīdia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Portuguese: matricídio
  • Spanish: matricidio

References

  • “matricidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “matricidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • matricidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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