Italy's prestigious Treccani
Encyclopaedia has chosen 'femicide' as its word of the year amid
a wave of deadly gender violence recently highlighted by the
murder by her ex boyfriend of 22-year-old Veneto student Giulia
Cecchettin.
The word first appeared in Italian in 2001 and was registered as
a neologism by the encyclopaedia in 2008.
"Since then it has spread like wildfire, like the crime it
denotes," said the Treccani Institute.
photo: Cecchettin's coffin
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