sororicide

sororicide

English

Etymology 1

Latin sorōricīdium (“killing of one’s sister”), from soror (“sister”). Equivalent to +‎ -cide.

Noun

sororicide (countable and uncountable, plural sororicides)

1. The killing of one's sister.
   • 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:

     Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).

Coordinate terms

• (killing of brother): fratricide

Derived terms

• sororicidal

Translations

killing of one’s sister

Dutch: zustermoord French: sororicide (fr) m German: Schwestermord m Greek: αδελφοκτονία (el) f (adelfoktonía) Ido: fratinocido Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: xwişkkujî f Latin: sorōricīdium n Polish: siostrobójstwo n Portuguese: sororicídio (pt) Russian: сестроуби́йство n (sestroubíjstvo)

Etymology 2

Latin sorōricīda (“one who kills his sister”), from soror (“sister”). Equivalent to +‎ -cide.

Noun

sororicide (plural sororicides)

1. A person who kills his or her sister.

Coordinate terms

• (brother killer): fratricide

Translations

sister killer

Dutch: zustermoordenaar French: sororicide (fr) m Greek: αδελφοκτόνος (el) m or f (adelfoktónos) Latin: sorōricīda m Polish: siostrobójca m, siostrobójczyni f

Translations

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Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) sestroubuistvo

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ʁɔ.ʁi.sid/

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Late Latin sorōricīdium.

Noun

sororicide m (plural sororicides)

1. sororicide (crime of killing one's sister)

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin sorōricīda.

Noun

sororicide m (plural sororicides)

1. sororicide (person who commits this crime)

Adjective

sororicide (plural sororicides)

1. sororicidal

Related terms

• fratricide
• parricide

Further reading

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