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]

In history

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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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  1. ^ a b "Nepoticide v. Avunculicide". Time. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ "1975: Saudi's King Faisal assassinated, BBC On this Day". BBC News. March 25, 1975.
  6. ^ "Equatorial Guinea 'thwarts coup attempt'". 3 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2019.