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matricida

matricida · comm

a mother's murderer, a matricide

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Where it lives

Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k

What it meant

mātrĭcīda — Lewis & Short

mātrĭcīda (scanned matrĭcĭda, ae, comm.mater-caedo,

Sid. Carm. 5, 291),

I a mother's murderer, a matricide (rare but class.): quem scribis certissimum matricidam, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2; Nep. Alc. 6, 2: cantavit Oresten matricidam, Suet. Ner. 21.—In tmesi: matrique cida Nero, Aus. de XII. Caes. 35 (al. matrīcīda Nero).

In the wild

matricida Tertullian, De Anima 25
matricida Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.290
matricidas Cornelius Nepos, Epaminondas 6
matricidam Suetonius, Nero 21.3
matricida Ausonius, Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1.4.6
matricidam Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 1.2.4

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. matricida (scan p. 414; entry #6625).

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