"feticide" meaning in All languages combined

See feticide on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: feticides [plural]
Etymology: fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from French -cide, from Latin -cida (“cutter, killer”), from -cid (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”) (used for form agent nouns). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fetus|cide|nocat=1}} fetus + -cide, {{suffix|en|fetus|icide}} fetus + -icide, {{uder|en|fr|-cide}} French -cide, {{uder|en|la|-cida||cutter, killer}} Latin -cida (“cutter, killer”), {{m|la|-cid}} -cid, {{m|la|caedō||cut, kill}} caedō (“cut, kill”), {{m|la|-a||-er}} -a (“-er”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} feticide (countable and uncountable, plural feticides)
  1. (dysphemistic) The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Abortion, Death
    Sense id: en-feticide-en-noun-h0xo4OqW Disambiguation of Abortion: 50 50 Disambiguation of Death: 58 42 Categories (other): English dysphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -cide (killer), English terms suffixed with -cide (killing), English terms suffixed with -icide, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 71 29 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 82 18 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cide (killer): 72 28 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cide (killing): 76 24 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -icide: 74 26 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 65 35
  2. One who kills a fetus. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Abortion
    Sense id: en-feticide-en-noun-6VYW9Cb9 Disambiguation of Abortion: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fetucide, foeticide Derived forms: feticidal Translations (killing of a fetus): fœticide [masculine] (French), Fetozid [masculine] (German), fósturdráp [neuter] (Icelandic), 堕胎 (datai) (alt: だたい) (Japanese), плодоубиство (plodoubistvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), fosterdrap [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), feticidio [masculine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'killing of a fetus': 50 50

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