Matricide

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

Mat·ri·cide (mætrɪˌsaɪd):
origin: from Latin- mātrīcīdium (the act), mātrīcīda (the agent). See matri-, -cide

noun
1. the killing of one’s mother.
2. a person who has killed his mother. — matricidal, adj.


Plus a handy list of additional words under the cut, so that you can keep all your murders straight~!

• Suicide = killing of one's self (possibly over family)

familial killing terms:
• Avunculicide = killing of one's uncle
• Filicide = killing of one's child
• Fratricide = killing of one's brother
• Mariticide = killing of one's spouse
• Nepoticide = killing of one's nephew
• Parricide = killing of one's parents or another close relative
• Patricide = killing of one's father
• Prolicide = killing of one's offspring
• Sororicide = killing of one's sister
• Uxoricide = killing of one's wife

non-familial killing terms from the same root:
• Deicide = killing of a god
• Genocide = killing of a large group of people, usually a specific and entire ethnic, racial, religious or national group
• Homicide = killing of any human
• Infanticide = killing of an infant from birth to 12 months
• Regicide = killing of a monarch (king or ruler)
• Tyrannicide = killing of a tyrant (2000)

Comments

[med_cat]

Goodness, what a word for Mother's Day! :P

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

Kill her with kindness!

p.s. I do actually love my mother, she even suggested a word for this comm. Unfortunately, it had been done twice before.

[med_cat]

Hee ;) I was thinking "matrilineal" would have been suitable...or "matriarchy"...etc. ;)

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

Matriarchy would've been nice! *matrilineal was the word @ another word comm today. (http://dictionary-wotd.livejournal.com/)

We just have a very dark sense of humor in my family :P

[med_cat]

I know "matrilineal" was ;) and yes, I see re: humour. Also, it was an interesting list of murders you had provided--some I'd not seen before ;)

[murielle.livejournal.com]

I just love you!

[rainbow-yarn.livejournal.com]

I actually knew matricide, but I'm rather pleased to see this long list (is that really strange or something?)! Thank you!

[rainbow-yarn.livejournal.com]

My first thought when I saw 'tyrannicide' was the killing of a t-rex...

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

I do wonder what the word for killing mattresses is sometimes...

[stormwindz.livejournal.com]

Bonus question - how many of these occur in Song of Ice and Fire? :D