matricideとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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matricide (countable and uncountable, plural matricides)

1. The killing of one's mother.

   Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.

   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 223:

     Here the interest was the more compelling because the case of Orestes was unique—not only because matricide was an almost unknown crime, but also because the gods themselves participate in an action in which the slain mother had herself slain the father of her son.

2. A person who kills his or her mother.

   Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.

派生語

参考

• filicide
• genocide
• homicide
• infanticide
• patricide
• regicide
• suicide
• uxoricide

アナグラム

• diametric