matricide

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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matricide (countable and uncountable, plural matricides)

1. The killing of one's mother.

   Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.

2. A person who kills his or her mother.

   Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.

• filicide
• genocide
• homicide
• infanticide
• patricide
• regicide
• suicide
• uxoricide

• diametric

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matricide m (plural matricides)

1. matricide (crime)

matricide m or f by sense (plural matricides)

1. matricide (person)

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