matricidium

== Latin == === Etymology === From māter (“mother”) + -cīdium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [maː.trɪˈkiː.di.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ma.triˈt͡ʃiː.di.um] === Noun === mātricīdium n (genitive mātricīdiī or mātricīdī); second declension The murder of one's mother, matricide. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 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 “matricidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.