infanticide

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/

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From French infanticide, from Latin īnfanticīdium.^[1] By surface analysis, infant +‎ -i- +‎ -cide.

infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)

1. The murder of an infant.
   • 1827, Robley Dunglison, Syllabus of the Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, page 93:

     PROLICIDE […] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.

   • 1973 December 8, “Infanticide in Japan: Sign of the Times?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     A recent government survey shows that 65 per cent of the families in Japan today are nuclear families, and a report on infanticide published this year by the Criminal Sience Club of Chuo University here indicates that eight out of ten infanticides today occur in nuclear families.

2. The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
3. (law, Canada) The criminal offence of killing of a newborn, committed by its mother while psychologically disturbed by the effects of childbirth or lactation, not regarded as murder.
4. (zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.

From French infanticide, from Latin īnfanticīda.^[2] By surface analysis, infant +‎ -i- +‎ -cide.

infanticide (plural infanticides)

1. The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.sid/

Learned borrowing from Late Latin īnfanticīdium, from Latin īnfāns (“child”) + caedō (“to kill”).

infanticide m (plural infanticides)

1. infanticide (murder of an infant)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin īnfanticīda, from Latin īnfāns (“child”) + caedō (“to kill”).

infanticide m or f (plural infanticides)

1. infanticide (murderer of a child, person who has committed infanticide)

• “infanticide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /in.fan.tiˈt͡ʃi.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: in‧fan‧ti‧cì‧de

infanticide f pl

1. feminine plural of infanticida

• nidificante