naticidium

Latin

Alternative forms

• gnāticīdium

Etymology

nātus (“child”) +‎ -cīdium

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nāticīdium n (genitive nāticīdiī or nāticīdī); second declension

1. the murdering of one's son or child, child-murder

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	nāticīdium	nāticīdia
genitive	nāticīdiī nāticīdī1	nāticīdiōrum
dative	nāticīdiō	nāticīdiīs
accusative	nāticīdium	nāticīdia
ablative	nāticīdiō	nāticīdiīs
vocative	nāticīdium	nāticīdia

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

References

• “naticidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "naticidium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “naticidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.