March 01, 2005

Word of the Day

Today's word is Uxoricide! That's when a husband kills his wife. I learned it by looking up Aphrodite Jones' new book about Michael Petersen for a patron. It's also a very handy subject heading in our catalog, in case you love books where the husband kills the wife. A gold star to anybody who knows the word for when the wife kills the husband...

Posted by awinters at March 1, 2005 02:35 PM
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mariticide.

Posted by: sassy at March 1, 2005 02:50 PM

Other fun 'cide words:

Killing oneself suicide, selfcide
Killing one's father patricide
Killing one's mother matricide
Killing one's parent(s) parenticide
Killing one's brother fratricide
Killing one's sister sororicide
Killing one's husband mariticide, viricide
Killing one's wife uxoricide
Killing one's son or daughter filicide, prolicide
Killing a close relative parricide

from: http://www.fun-with-words.com/cide_words.html

Posted by: Rowantree at March 1, 2005 03:42 PM

Dude! We forgot Homicide!

Posted by: Auntie M at March 1, 2005 04:14 PM

regicide, which manages to be both educational and fun. Pity poor Mr. Philbin, howevah.

Posted by: Seņor Unpleasant at March 1, 2005 04:27 PM

Uxoricide, coming from the latin word for wife: uxor.

Posted by: Robo at March 1, 2005 04:34 PM

so vir is man? It's "mariticide" that is confusing. I was just playing with VT's library databases and failing to find the meaning of the root. Anyone more abel than me? (It's also almost 1 AM for me.)

Posted by: sophiagrrl at March 2, 2005 12:38 AM

Maritus, -i = husband

Posted by: Robo at March 2, 2005 10:46 AM

So if sororicide is killing one's sister, what would be the word for offing the entire membership of a sorority? Not that I've ever considered doing this or actually done it, mind you. ahem.

Posted by: nothingruler at March 3, 2005 11:19 PM

Want to hear something funny? I approached a couple at the Cradle, because based on some criteria in my head, I thought they might be you and your husband.

they weren't :-)

and i couldn't remember your page, but lo and behold I got a referral from here just today. Weird, isn't it?

Posted by: pinky at March 4, 2005 02:49 PM

dang, thanks for trying to say hello to us! it's hard to catch my better half out at a show, so if the lady has a guy with her, it's probably not me. our main romantic hangout is the UMall Harris Teeter, actually.

Posted by: goaty at March 8, 2005 10:32 AM