Definition of "filicide"

filicide

/ˈfɪ.lɪ.sʌɪd/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural filicides
1. The killing of one's own child.
  Quotations
  Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).
  2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, pages 205–206
2. A person who kills his or her own child.
  Quotations
  Ned is running, panicked, […] running for the cold hard road and the sanctuary of the Brunch farm like a filicide caught in the act.
  1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin Books, published 2006, page 287