naticidium

Latin

Alternative forms

• gnāticīdium

Etymology

nātus (“child”) +‎ -cīdium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /naː.tiˈkiː.di.um/, [näːt̪ɪˈkiːd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /na.tiˈt͡ʃi.di.um/, [nät̪iˈt͡ʃiːd̪ium]

Noun

nāticīdium n (genitive nāticīdiī or nāticīdī); second declension

1. the murdering of one's son or child, child-murder

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	nāticīdium	nāticīdia
genitive	nāticīdiī nāticīdī1	nāticīdiōrum
dative	nāticīdiō	nāticīdiīs
accusative	nāticīdium	nāticīdia
ablative	nāticīdiō	nāticīdiīs
vocative	nāticīdium	nāticīdia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “naticidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• naticidium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• naticidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.