femicide

English

Alternative forms

• feminicide

Etymology

From Latin fēm(ina) (“woman”) +‎ -icide, by analogy with genocide and homicide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.mɪ.saɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛmɪsaɪd
• Hyphenation: fem‧i‧cide

Noun

femicide (countable and uncountable, plural femicides)

1. The killing of a woman or girl because of her sex, especially when motivated by misogyny. [from 19th c.]
   • 2020 March 7, Tom Phillips, “'This is our feminist spring': millions of Mexican women prepare to strike over femicides”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But when Mexican feminists hit the streets on Valentine’s Day to denounce their country’s worsening femicide crisis, she saw a chance to ensure her mother’s life and death were remembered.

Synonyms

• womanslaughter

Hyponyms

• transfemicide

Translations

killing of women

• Catalan: feminicidi (ca) m, femicidi m
• Danish: femicide
• Dutch: vrouwenmoord f, feminicide f, gynocide f, femicide (nl) f
• Finnish: naismurha
• French: féminicide (fr) m, fémicide m, gynocide (fr) m
• Galician: feminicidio m, femicidio m
• Georgian: ფემიციდი (pemicidi)
• German: Femizid (de) m or n, Frauenmord (de) m
• Greek: γυναικοκτονία (el) f (gynaikoktonía)
• Italian: femminicidio (it) m, femmicidio m,
• Japanese: フェミサイド (femisaido), フェミニサイド (feminisaido)
• Korean: 여성살해 (yeoseongsalhae), 녀성살해 (nyeoseongsalhae) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: jinkujî (ku) f

• Polish: kobietobójstwo n
• Portuguese: feminicídio (pt) m, femicídio m
• Russian: фемици́д (ru) m (femicíd), феминици́д m (feminicíd)
• Spanish: femicidio (es) m, feminicidio (es) m
• Swedish: kvinnomord (sv) n

See also

• gynocide

Further reading

• femicide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Noun

femicide f (plural femicides, diminutive femicidetje n)

1. femicide

   Synonyms: vrouwenmoord, feminicide, gynocide