feticide

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion. countable,uncountable
    — Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh.
  2. One who kills a fetus. countable,uncountable

词形变化

feticides plural fetucide alternative foeticide alternative

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词源

From fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”) and its derivation -cīdium (“killing”), from -cīd (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”, forming agent nouns).
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