uxoricide

uxoricide

English

WOTD – 19 July 2006

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/
• Hyphenation: ux‧or‧i‧cide

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Etymology 1

From French uxoricide[1] or Latin uxor + English -icide.[2]

Noun

uxoricide (plural uxoricides)

1. One who murders his or her wife.

Antonyms

• mariticide, viricide (“murder of one's husband”)

Hypernyms

• homicide (“murder of a human being”)
• mariticide (“murder of one's spouse”)

Translations

a man who kills his wife

Estonian: naisetapja French: uxoricide (fr) m German: Gattinnenmörder m Greek: συζυγοκτόνος (el) m (syzygoktónos) Italian: uxoricida (it) Polish: żonobójca (pl) m Portuguese: uxoricida (pt) m or f Romagnol: uxorizìda m Russian: женоуби́йца (ru) m (ženoubíjca) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: женоубица m Roman: ženoubica m Spanish: uxoricida (es) m or f

Etymology 2

From French uxoricide[1] or Latin uxōricīdium.[2]

Noun

uxoricide (countable and uncountable, plural uxoricides)

1. The murdering of one's own wife.
   • 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).

   • 2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, vol. 37, no. 12:

     In order for someone to green-light a movie of this story, they’d need to have at least background knowledge of the sexual shenanigans of Sartre and Beauvoir, and of Althusser’s uxoricide – though not necessarily a close acquaintance with their published work.

Derived terms

• uxoricidal

Translations

the killing of one's wife

Esperanto: edzinmurdo Estonian: naisetapp Finnish: vaimonmurha French: uxoricide (fr) m German: Gattinnenmord m Greek: συζυγοκτονία (el) f (syzygoktonía) Ido: spozinocido Italian: uxoricidio (it) m Polish: żonobójstwo (pl) n Portuguese: uxoricídio (pt) m Romagnol: uxorizìdi m Russian: женоуби́йство (ru) n (ženoubíjstvo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: женоубиство n Roman: ženoubistvo n Spanish: uxoricidio (es) m

See also

• familicide (“murder/murderer of one's family”)
• fratricide (“murder/murderer of one's brother”)
• infanticide (“murder/murderer of one's child”)
• parricide (“murder/murderer of one's relative”)
• patricide (“murder/murderer of one's father”)
• matricide (“murder/murderer of one's mother”)
• sororicide (“murder/murderer of one's sister”)
• suicide (“the act of killing oneself/one who kills oneself”)
• uxorious (“devoted to one's wife”)

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “uxoricide”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. “uxoricide”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uk.so.riˈt͡ʃi.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: u‧xo‧ri‧cì‧de

Adjective

uxoricide

1. feminine plural of uxoricida