avunculicide

{{short description|Act of killing one's uncle}}

{{Homicide}}

{{Violence against men}}

Avunculicide is the act of killing an uncle.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121103125555/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,898509,00.html?promoid=googlep "Nepoticide v. Avunculicide"]. Time. Retrieved June 6, 2009. The word can also refer to someone who commits such an act. The term is derived from the Latin words avunculus meaning "maternal uncle" and caedere meaning "to cut down" or "to kill". Edmunds suggests that in mythology avunculicide is a substitute for parricide. The killing of a nephew is a nepoticide.{{cite book | author=Edmunds L | title=Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D3iiJT5avfEC&q=nepoticide&pg=PA64|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press, 1995 |isbn=0-299-14854-8 | page=64| date=November 1995 }}

In history

See also

;Familial killing terms:

  • Filicide, the killing of one's child
  • Fratricide, the killing of one's brother
  • Mariticide, the killing of one's husband
  • Matricide, the killing of one's mother
  • Parricide, the killing of one's parents or another close relative
  • Patricide, the killing of one's father
  • Prolicide, the killing of one's offspring
  • Sororicide, the killing of one's sister
  • Uxoricide, the killing of one's wife

;Non-familial killing terms from the same root:

  • Deicide, the killing of a god
  • Genocide, the systematic killing of a large group of people, usually an entire ethnic, racial, religious or national group
  • Homicide, the killing of a human
  • Infanticide, the killing of an infant from birth to 12 months
  • Regicide, the killing of a monarch (king or ruler)
  • Tyrannicide, the killing of a tyrant
  • Feminicide, the gender-based killing of a woman
  • Androcide, the gender-based killing of a man

References

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{{Wiktionary|avunculicide|nepoticide}}

Category:Killings by type

Category:Familicides

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