Latin

Noun

mātricīdium n ‎(genitive mātricīdiī or mātricīdī); second declension

1. The murder of one's mother, matricide.

Inflection

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

Descendants

• Portuguese: matricídio
• Spanish: matricidio

References

• matricidium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• matricidium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “matricidium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.