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filicide (n.)

1660s, "action of killing a son or daughter," from Latin filius/filia "son/daughter" (see filial) + -cide "a killing." Meaning "one who kills a son or daughter" is from 1823. Related: Filicidal.

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filial (adj.)
late 14c., from Late Latin filialis "of a son or daughter," from Latin filius "son," filia "daughter," possibly from a suffixed form of PIE root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow" (see be), but Watkins finds it "more likely" assimilated from *felios, originally "a suckling," a suffixed form of PIE root *dhe(i)- "to suck, suckle."
-cide 

word-forming element meaning "killer," from French -cide, from Latin -cida "cutter, killer, slayer," from -cidere, combining form of caedere "to strike down, chop, beat, hew, fell, slay," from Proto-Italic *kaid-o-, from PIE root *kae-id- "to strike." For Latin vowel change, see acquisition. The element also can represent "killing," from French -cide, from Latin -cidium "a cutting, a killing."

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Definitions of filicide

filicide (n.)
a parent who murders his own son or daughter;
filicide (n.)
the murder of your own son or daughter;
From wordnet.princeton.edu

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