matricide.
The killing of one's mother.
Meaning & usage
The killing of one's mother.
Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.
A person who kills his or her mother.
Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.
Where this word comes from
From French matricide, from Latin mātricīda (“person who kills his own mother”) and mātricīdium (“the murder of one's mother”). By surface analysis, matri- + -cide.
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