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filicídio

Portuguese, noun/fi.liˈsi.d͡ʒju/

filicídio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “filicide (the murder of one’s child)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “assassinato de seus próprios filhos”.

What does filicídio mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinefilicide (the murder of one’s child)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. assassinato de seus próprios filhos

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of filicídio

  • filicídios plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce filicídio?

  • Brazil /fi.liˈsi.d͡ʒju/
  • Portugal /fi.liˈsi.dju/
  • Portugal [fi.liˈsi.ðju]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to filicídio

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is filicídio in Portuguese?

filicídio appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).