feticide

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feticide

/ˈfiːtɪsaɪd/

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From fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”) and its derivation -cīdium (“killing”), from -cīd (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”, forming agent nouns).

noun feticides · fetucide · foeticide

countable, uncountable The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion. Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh.
countable, uncountable One who kills a fetus.

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noun killing of a fetus

Español	feticidio
日本語	堕胎 datai
हिन्दी	भ्रूणहत्या bhrūṇhatyā
Français	fœticide
Deutsch	Fetozid

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@misc{feticide_2026,
  title = {feticide},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/feticide},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}