matricide

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the killing of one's mother

   The tragic hero tries to excuse his matricide as an act compelled by circumstance.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who kills their mother

   The court condemned the matricide for the deliberate crime.

From French matricide and Latin matricidium ("murder of a mother") or matricida ("one who kills a mother"), formed from matri- ("mother") + -cide ("killer, killing").

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