feticide
1 synonym for feticide, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — (law) The killing of an unborn baby, including through a deliberate abortion.
Synonyms
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Etymology
Formed from fetus plus -cide, or fetus plus -icide; the suffix comes from Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”) and its derivative -cīdium (“killing”), from -cīd (the combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) plus -a (“-er”, forming agent nouns).
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