Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Femminicidio

Come si traduce?
 
 
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On Sep 29, 2013, ADPUF wrote
 
:> Come si traduce?
 
Does this help? I'm not familiar with the term. (i.e., I'm not a killer. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femicide
 
 
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femicide
 
 
Even if you are not a killer of females, would you say Femicide or 
Feminicide? :)
 

On Sep 30, 2013, edevils wrote
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Probably the latter, but if I needed to express that thought I'd try to 
recast the sentence and use something like "killer of women," "woman slayer," 
or some such, depending on the context.
 
Neither of those two "F" words is very widely used, in my experience, except 
possibly in legal or criminal venues.
 
Maybe Tony has a different experience.
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 Maybe Tony has a different experience.
 
That "F" word wasn't used in Italian either until a few years ago. Now 
we even have a new law about it.
 

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femicide
 
 
 
Thanks.
 
I thought it was one of those untranslatable Italian neologisms.
 
 
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 ago. Now we even have a new law about it.
 
 
The technical word was "uxoricidio" (only for the homicide of
one's wife, which most femicide cases are).
 
How do you translate uxoricidio?
 
I found this:
"Intimate partner femicide"
 
Hm, the exact word:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxoricide
 
 
 
"Mariticidio" however does not exist in Italian, we use
uxoricidio also for that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariticide
 
 
 
Among the following, only the *-ed are used in Italian:
 
Familial killing terms:
Avunculicide, the killing of one's uncle
Filicide, the killing of one's child
*Fratricide, the killing of one's brother
*Matricide, the killing of one's mother
Nepoticide, the killing of one's nephew
*Parricide, the killing of one's parents or another close
            relative
Patricide, the killing of one's father
Prolicide, is the killing of one's offspring
Sororicide, the killing of one's sister
 (fratricide is used)
*Uxoricide, the killing of one's wife
 (also for the killing of one's husband)
 
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femicide
 
 
 
Thanks.
 
I thought it was one of those untranslatable Italian neologisms.
 
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Here in the UK , I've never heard , and I don't think I've ever read (until 
now), either 'femicide' or 'feminicide'. There's plenty of discussion of 
'violence against women' in the newspapers (from what I've read in the 
Italian press, the bill currently before the Italian parliament is also 
about a broad range of offences against women - so I've never really 
understood the use of the term 'femminicidio') - but no-one here has seen 
any use for a term apparently isolating the murder of women . To me , it 
seems like a another example of the tiresome compulsion to replace or remove 
any occurrence of the word 'man' (or its Latin equivalent) - as if anyone 
ever thought that 'homicide' applied only to the killing of males.
 
Mike