infanticide

From infant +‎ -cide.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/

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infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)

1. The murder of an infant.
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. The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
5. (zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.

• infanticidal

• 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

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