Sororicide
/ˈsɒr.ə.rɪ.saɪd/noun
The killing of one’s sister.
Did you know?Like many English words ending in -cide, sororicide was shaped by Latin legal and learned vocabulary, where the suffix -cide comes from caedere, meaning “to cut down” or “kill.”
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
soror
“sister”
Latin
Latin
-cidium / caedere
“to cut down, strike, kill”
Late Latin
Latin
sororicidium
“killing of a sister”
17th Century
English
sororicide
“the killing of one’s sister; also the killer of one’s sister”
Modern English
English
sororicide
“the killing of one’s sister”