infanticides

Meaning of infanticides

plural noun
  1. the crime of a mother killing her child within a year of birth.
    cases of infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance
  2. a person who kills an infant, especially their own child.

mid 17th century: via French from late Latin infanticidium, from Latin infant- (see infant) + -cidium (see -cide).

Information about infanticides

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of infanticides is: infanticide.
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Hyphenation of infanticides

in-fan-ti-cides

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
  • infanticides is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

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