matricide
noun/ˈmætrɪsaɪd/
/ˈmætrɪsaɪd/
[uncountable, countable] (formal)- the crime of killing your mother; a person who is guilty of this crime compare fratricide, parricide, patricideTopics Crime and punishmentc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin matricidium, from mater, matr- ‘mother’ + -cidium, from caedere ‘kill’.
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