3325英语网 单词
matricide的意思
matricide
英 ['mætrɪsaɪd; 'meɪtrɪ-]
美 ['mætrə'saɪd]
- n. 弑母
中文词源
matricide 弑母
matri-,母亲，-cid,杀，词源同herbicide.
英文词源
- matricide (n.)
- 1590s, "action of killing one's mother," from French matricide, from Latin matricida "mother-killer," and matricidium "mother-killing," from comb. form of mater "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + -cida "killer," and -cidium "a killing," from caedere "to slay" (see -cide). Meaning "one who kills his mother" is 1630s. Related: Matricidal (adj.). Old English had moðorslaga "matricide, mother-slayer."