assassination

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English assassin

English -ate

English assassinate

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ion

English assassination

From assassinate + -ion.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˌsæs.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

assassination (countable and uncountable, plural assassinations)

1. The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.

   The assassination of the king occurred at night.

   • 1890, James Franck Bright, edited by Rivingtons, A History of England‎^[1], →ISBN, page 853:

     But side by side with it was a baser conspiracy, among the more unprincipled and desperate friends of James, for the assassination of the King.

   • 1963, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming‎^[2], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxiv:

     Liu's agents pursued him and he escaped assassination only by throwing his clothing away by the Chʻien-tʻang River near Hangchow, thus suggesting suicide.

Derived terms

• assassination market
• assassination marketplace
• character assassination
• counterassassination
• royal assassination

Related terms

• assassin

Translations

murder

• Arabic: اِغْتِيَال (ar) m (iḡtiyāl)
• Armenian: մարդասպանություն (mardaspanutʻyun), սպանություն (hy) (spanutʻyun)
• Belarusian: зама́х m (zamáx), забо́йства (be) n (zabójstva)
• Bulgarian: атента́т (bg) (atentát), полити́ческо уби́йство (politíčesko ubíjstvo), уби́йство (bg) n (ubíjstvo)
• Burmese: လုပ်ကြံမှု (my) (lupkramhmu.)
• Catalan: assassinat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暗殺 / 暗杀 (zh) (ànshā), 刺殺 / 刺杀 (zh) (cìshā)

• Czech: atentát (cs) m, vražda (cs) f
• Danish: attentat (da) n, snigmord n
• Dutch: moord (nl), sluipmoord (nl) f
• Estonian: atentaat
• Finnish: salamurha (fi)
• French: assassinat (fr) m
• Galician: asasinato (gl) m
• Georgian: პოლიტიკური მკვლელობა (ṗoliṭiḳuri mḳvleloba)
• German: Ermordung (de) f, Attentat (de) n, Meuchelmord (de) m, tödlicher Mordanschlag m
• Greek: δολοφονία (el) (dolofonía)
• Hebrew: רֶצַח (he) m (rétzakh) הִתְנַקְּשׁוּת (he) f (hitnaqshut)
• Hungarian: merénylet (hu)
• Italian: assassinio (it) m
• Japanese: 暗殺 (ja) (あんさつ, ansatsu)
• Korean: 암살(暗殺) (ko) (amsal)
• Latin: (Classical Latin) caedēs per insidiās; (Modern Latin) assassinātiō
• Macedonian: атента́т m (atentát), у́биство n (úbistvo)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: assâsinâtion f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: attentat (no) n, snikmord n

  Nynorsk: attentat n

• Occitan: assassinat (oc) m
• Odia: ଗୁପ୍ତହତ୍ୟା (guptahatyā)
• Old English: morþsliht m
• Persian: قتل (fa) (qatl), سوء قصد (fa) (su'-e qasd), ترور (fa) (teror)
• Polish: zamach (pl) m, skrytobójstwo (pl) n, morderstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: assassinato (pt) m
• Romanian: asasinat (ro) n, asasinare (ro) f
• Russian: уби́йство (ru) n (ubíjstvo), наёмное уби́йство n (najómnoje ubíjstvo)
• Slovak: atentát m, vražda (sk) f
• Slovene: atentat m, umor (sl) m
• Spanish: asesinato (es) m, magnicidio (es) m, sicariato m
• Swedish: attentat (sv), lönnmord (sv) n
• Tagalog: paglingo
• Tajik: қатл (qatl)
• Tarifit: tamenɣiwt f
• Thai: การลอบสังหาร (gaan-lɔ̂ɔp-sǎng-hǎan)
• Turkish: suikast (tr)
• Ukrainian: уби́вство n (ubývstvo), за́мах m (zámax) (attempt)
• Vietnamese: vụ ám sát (vi) (vụ (vi) + 暗殺)

See also

• targeted killing