sororicide

[ suh-rawr-uh-sahyd, -ror- ]

noun

1. the act of killing one's own sister.
2. a person who kills their sister.

sororicide

/ səˈrɒrɪˌsaɪd /

noun

1. the act of killing one's own sister
2. a person who kills his or her sister

Derived Forms

• soˌroriˈcidal, adjective

Other Words From

• so·rori·cidal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of sororicide¹

First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin sorōricīda “one who kills his sister,” -cīdium “the act of killing one's sister,” equivalent to sorōr- (stem of soror ) sister + -cīda, -cīdium -cide

Word History and Origins

Origin of sororicide¹

C17: from Latin sorōricīda one who murders his sister, from soror sister + caedere to slay

Example Sentences

There was additional shrapnel because, coming from a fellow New Yorker writer, this was the most brazen act of sororicide since Goneril poisoned Regan in “King Lear.”

From New York Times

Latitude's fertile mix of different musics, different ways of telling stories through poetry, dance, literature as well as song, resonates with the fundamentals of Bow Down – but whether a festival audience are ready for a spot of gory sororicide, disembowelling and live burial, remains to be seen.

From The Guardian

Sororicide, sor-or′i-sīd, n. the murder, or the murderer, of a sister.

From Project Gutenberg

Notwithstanding the excitement and �clat attending the triumphant entry of Horatius into Rome, the proper officer of the period, whoever he may have been, was evidently not only on duty, but prepared to do it, for the victorious fratricide, or sororicide, was at once hurried off to the nearest Roman station.

From Project Gutenberg

If the envious man from the house-top denounces a man of reputation as a thief, a gambler, a patricide, a sororicide, amicocide, no man regardeth his voice, though he call out with the voice of Stentor: people only stare: these are the words of a madman or a malignant.

From Project Gutenberg