Vocabulary 7

DEATHS

Root: -cide – Killing or murder                              

Matricide – Killing one's mother. (Matr – Mother)

Patricide - Killing one's father. (Patr – Father)

Parricide – Killing one's parents. (Parr – Parents)

Fratricide – Killing one's brother.

Sororicide – Killing one's sister.

Marricide - Killing one's husband.

Uxoricide - Killing one's wife.

Regicide – Killing of a king.

Homicide - Killing of human.

Filicide - Killing one's children.

Foeticide - Killing of foetus.

Infanticide - Killing of infant (new born).

Apicide - Killing of bees. (Api –Bees)

Avicide - Killing of birds. (Avi –Birds)

Cannicide - Killing of dogs.

 

Root: Necr – Death

Necrology – A list of recently dead.

Necromancy – The practice of talking to the spirits of dead people.

Necrophilia – Sexual feelings or activities that involves dead bodies. (Phil – Love)

Necropolis – A large cemetery especially of an ancient city. (Polis –City)

Necropsy – Autopsy i.e. post-mortem especially of an animal. (Autopsy – Post-mortem)

 

Some additional words related to death

      Epitaph – Words inscribed on grave/ tomb.

Cemetery – A graveyard where dead bodies are buried.

Crematorium – A place where last funeral rites are performed.

Obituary –An account in newspaper about the funeral.

Elegy – A poem on death on someone loved and admired.

Mortuary – A place where dead bodies are kept until burial.

Morgue – A place where dead bodies are kept for identification.



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