See vulpicide on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "vulpēs"
},
"expansion": "Latin vulpēs",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "-cide",
"nocat": "1"
},
"expansion": "-cide",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin vulpēs or vulpis (“fox”) + -cide.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "vulpicides",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "vulpecide",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "vulpicide (countable and uncountable, plural vulpicides)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"vul",
"pi",
"cide"
]
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "vulpicidal"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "58 42",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -cide (killer)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "67 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "78 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
94,
104
]
],
"ref": "1910, Owen Jones, Marcus Woodward, A gamekeeper's note-book:",
"text": "Some of the foxes found dead on railway lines, by the way, have been put there after death by vulpicides.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
141,
150
]
],
"ref": "1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 121:",
"text": "‘Seven months I've been worriting my guts out in London, and all on the off-chance of getting a seat in the office of that sanctimonious old vulpicide.’",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone who kills foxes other than by hunting them with hounds."
],
"id": "en-vulpicide-en-noun-uui~-hMQ",
"links": [
[
"kill",
"kill"
],
[
"fox",
"fox"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) Someone who kills foxes other than by hunting them with hounds."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -cide (killer)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -cide (killing)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
92,
101
]
],
"ref": "1846 July 7, The Foreign Quarterly Review, number 74:",
"text": "[…]he who brought in the head of a wolf or a fox was entitled to a reward, for the crime of vulpicide, so justly odious in the nineteenth century, was actually encouraged in the dark ages!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
24,
33
]
],
"ref": "1862, The Quarterly Review, volume 111, number 222:",
"text": "Nowhere is the crime of vulpicide more odious. An ardent sportsman, not many years since, is said at some public meeting to have thus tersely expressed himself:—‘Sir, I believe that a man who would kill a fox would kill his own father.’ This may appear strong language, but it shows the detestation in which the offence is held.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
38,
47
]
],
"ref": "1868, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History:",
"text": "Prove by the rules of Aristotle “that vulpicide is murder,” and is punishable accordingly by the laws of Squirearchy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The killing of a fox."
],
"id": "en-vulpicide-en-noun-Zj9B9pWc",
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈvʌlpɪsaɪd/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-vulpicide.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/47/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-vulpicide.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-vulpicide.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/47/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-vulpicide.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-vulpicide.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"word": "vulpicide"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms suffixed with -cide (killer)",
"English terms suffixed with -cide (killing)",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "vulpēs"
},
"expansion": "Latin vulpēs",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "-cide",
"nocat": "1"
},
"expansion": "-cide",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin vulpēs or vulpis (“fox”) + -cide.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "vulpicides",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "vulpecide",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "vulpicide (countable and uncountable, plural vulpicides)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"vul",
"pi",
"cide"
]
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "vulpicidal"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
94,
104
]
],
"ref": "1910, Owen Jones, Marcus Woodward, A gamekeeper's note-book:",
"text": "Some of the foxes found dead on railway lines, by the way, have been put there after death by vulpicides.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
141,
150
]
],
"ref": "1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 121:",
"text": "‘Seven months I've been worriting my guts out in London, and all on the off-chance of getting a seat in the office of that sanctimonious old vulpicide.’",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone who kills foxes other than by hunting them with hounds."
],
"links": [
[
"kill",
"kill"
],
[
"fox",
"fox"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) Someone who kills foxes other than by hunting them with hounds."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
92,
101
]
],
"ref": "1846 July 7, The Foreign Quarterly Review, number 74:",
"text": "[…]he who brought in the head of a wolf or a fox was entitled to a reward, for the crime of vulpicide, so justly odious in the nineteenth century, was actually encouraged in the dark ages!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
24,
33
]
],
"ref": "1862, The Quarterly Review, volume 111, number 222:",
"text": "Nowhere is the crime of vulpicide more odious. An ardent sportsman, not many years since, is said at some public meeting to have thus tersely expressed himself:—‘Sir, I believe that a man who would kill a fox would kill his own father.’ This may appear strong language, but it shows the detestation in which the offence is held.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
38,
47
]
],
"ref": "1868, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History:",
"text": "Prove by the rules of Aristotle “that vulpicide is murder,” and is punishable accordingly by the laws of Squirearchy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The killing of a fox."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈvʌlpɪsaɪd/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-vulpicide.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/47/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-vulpicide.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-vulpicide.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/47/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-vulpicide.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-vulpicide.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"word": "vulpicide"
}
Download raw JSONL data for vulpicide meaning in All languages combined (3.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.