"feticide" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: feticides [plural]
Etymology: From 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”) 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
    Sense id: en-feticide-en-noun-h0xo4OqW Disambiguation of Abortion: 51 49 Categories (other): English dysphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -cide (killer), English terms suffixed with -cide (killing), English terms suffixed with -icide, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cide (killer): 64 36 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cide (killing): 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -icide: 66 34 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 68 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 69 31 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 60 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 71 29
  2. One who kills a fetus. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Abortion, Death
    Sense id: en-feticide-en-noun-6VYW9Cb9 Disambiguation of Abortion: 51 49 Disambiguation of Death: 39 61
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': 49 51

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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