Etymology of the word suicide

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Review
Edwin S. Shneidman on Suicide
Antoon A. Leenaars

The word may originally have come from a Latinizing of the concept of
selfkiller or self-destroyer in 1642 or 1651

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For Shneidman, you begin with definition
and theory, and if it is pain, then you talk about
perturbation and lethality. Shneidman would begin his
science with the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), to
provide the basis for a definition of suicide. We learn
that the word suicide is a fairly recent one, and did not
exist until the 18th century. Shneidman (1971a) writes:
The OED indicates that the earliest use of "suicide"
was essentially a Latinizing of the concept of selfkiller
or self-destroyer. The term was apparently not
used until 1651. A. Alvarez claims that he found the
word a little earlier in Sir Thomas Browne's Religio
Medici, written in 1635, published in 1642. By the
mid-eighteenth century, the word seems to have been
generally known to literary men in England. In the
nineteenth century, French writers – Boismont,
Durkheim, Qutelelt – did much with the word. Today,
"suicide" is everyone's word, the almost international
labeling for – as a recent definition has it – "the
human act of self-inflicted, self-intentional cessation"
(International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,
1968, vol. 15, pp. 385-89).
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