It is used as a "husband's murder", although its scope is wider and includes the murder of any male by his male status. It was initially a type of genocide, since the selection of young males to fight in a war that governments do, often as an excuse for population control, has more of a genocidal bias. And especially in tribal struggles where the victors execute the adult males and stay with the women and children of the vanquished. It comes from the Latin vir , i ( "husband, male, hero" ) the suffix -cidio .
