Avunculicide

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Avunculicide is the act of killing an uncle. [1] 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. [2] The killing of a nephew is a nepoticide. [1] [2]

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Familial killing terms
Non-familial killing terms from the same root

References

  1. 1 2 "Nepoticide v. Avunculicide". Time . Retrieved June 6, 2009.
  2. 1 2 Edmunds L (November 1995). Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook. University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. p. 64. ISBN   0-299-14854-8.
  3. Bede (2008). The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Oxford University Press: J. McClure and R. Collins. p. 222.
  4. Barbara Tuchman (1978). A Distant Mirror. New York: A.A. Knopf. p. 418.
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  6. "Equatorial Guinea 'thwarts coup attempt'". 3 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2019.