Saturday, September 29, 2012

Word of the Day: “magistricide”

Pronounced  “ma-JISS-tra-side”.  
It means “killing your teacher”.
Etymology:  From Latin MAGISTER ‘teacher’, the source of our words master and (less directly) mister ; plus -CIDE, as in homicide, infanticide, insecticide.

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