Mexican influencer Valeria Marquez killed on TikTok livestream
Mexican influencer Valeria Marquez killed on TikTok livestream
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Mexican influencer Valeria Marquez killed on TikTok livestream
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Viricide or androcide; viricide is more etymologically consistent, but I expect would be less common (if either term were common at all, which they aren't)
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Viricide sounds like a topical cream for an STD
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That would be virucide :P
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Mixing Greek and Latin word fragments is so common that I don't think one more is going to make a difference.
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From a quick search, viricide seems to mean "kills viruses" (as an alternate spelling of virucide) or killing one's husband.
I would probably use the term androcide.
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'Alternate spelling' is a fun way to say misspelling /s
Viricide is more consistent because vir and femina are both Latin (as is -cide/-cidium, but that's less important), while andro is Greek. The Greek-rooted synonym for femicide would be gynaecide.
But yeah, androcide would be more likely to be used, because it avoids the superficial similarity to virus; kind of like how Latin and Greek numerical prefixes often get mixed together to avoid the prefix 'sex-'
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to avoid the prefix ‘sex-’
Sexagon sounds funny
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Sexagon sounds like an MMA-themed porno
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