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Meaning of matricide in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈmætrəˌsaɪd/

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  1. Noun

    matricide

    Etymology

    late 16th century: from Latin matricidium, from mater, matr-‘mother’ + -cidium (see -cide)

    Definitions

    1. a person who murders their mother
  2. 2. murder of your mother

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  • « If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. »
    Meg Greenfield

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