infanticidium

Latin

Etymology

From īnfāns (“infant”) +‎ -cīdium (“killing, slaughter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩː.fan.tɪˈkiː.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iɱ.fan.tiˈt͡ʃiː.di.um]

Noun

īnfanticīdium n (genitive īnfanticīdiī or īnfanticīdī); second declension

1. child-murder, infanticide

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	īnfanticīdium	īnfanticīdia
genitive	īnfanticīdiī īnfanticīdī1	īnfanticīdiōrum
dative	īnfanticīdiō	īnfanticīdiīs
accusative	īnfanticīdium	īnfanticīdia
ablative	īnfanticīdiō	īnfanticīdiīs
vocative	īnfanticīdium	īnfanticīdia

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

References

• “infanticidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infanticidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.