matricide

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The killing of one's mother. countable,uncountable
    — Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.
  2. A person who kills his or her mother. countable,uncountable
    — Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.

词形变化

matricides plural

词源

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.
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