infanticide

English

WOTD – 21 September 2011

From infant +‎ -cide.

infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)

The murder of an infant.
The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
(zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.

the murder of an infant

Armenian: մանկասպանություն (mankaspanutʿyun)
Old Armenian: մանկասպանութիւն (mankaspanutʿiwn)
Belarusian: дзетазабойства n (dzjetazabójstva)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 殺嬰, 杀婴 (shāyīng)
Czech: infanticida (cs) f
Dutch: kindermoord (nl) f, kinderdoding (nl) f, infanticide (nl) f
Finnish: lapsenmurha (fi)
French: infanticide (fr) m
Galician: infanticidio m
German: Kindesmord m, Kindestötung (de) f
Greek: βρεφοκτονία (el) f (vrefoktonía)
Hungarian: csecsemőgyilkosság

the murder of one's child

Armenian: որդեսպանություն (hy) (ordespanutʿyun)
Old Armenian: որդեսպանութիւն (ordespanutʿiwn)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: kindermoord (nl) f, kinderdoding (nl) f, infanticide (nl) f
Esperanto: infanmurdo
Finnish: lapsenmurha (fi)
French: infanticide (fr) m
German: Kindesmord m
Greek: παιδοκτονία (el) f (paidoktonía), τεκνοκτονία f (teknoktonía)

a person who has killed a child

Armenian: մանկասպան (hy) (mankaspan), որդեսպան (hy) (ordespan), տղայասպան (hy) (tłayaspan)
Old Armenian: մանկասպան (mankaspan), որդեսպան (ordespan), տղայասպան (tłayaspan)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: kindermoordenaar (nl) m, kindermoordenares f
Estonian: lapsetapja
Finnish: lapsenmurhaaja

infanticide f

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