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sororicide

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Etymology 1

From Latin sorōricīdium (“killing of one’s sister”), from soror (“sister”) + -cīdium (“killing”). Equivalent to Latin soror (“sister”) +‎ -cide (“killing”).

Noun

sororicide (countable and uncountable, plural sororicides)

  1. The killing of one's sister.
    • 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:
      Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).
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Etymology 2

From Latin sorōricīda (“one who kills his sister”), from soror (“sister”) + -cīda (“killer”). Equivalent to Latin soror (“sister”) +‎ -cide (“killer”).

Noun

sororicide (plural sororicides)

  1. A person who kills his or her sister.
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French

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Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Late Latin sorōricīdium.

Noun

sororicide m (plural sororicides)

  1. sororicide (crime of killing one's sister)

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin sorōricīda.

Noun

sororicide m (plural sororicides)

  1. sororicide (person who commits this crime)

Adjective

sororicide (plural sororicides)

  1. sororicidal

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