parricide

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French parricide, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin parricida, of uncertain origin, perhaps from pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæ.ɹɪ.saɪd/

Noun

parricide (countable and uncountable, plural parricides)

1. Someone who kills a relative, especially a parent.
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear II.i:

     I told him the reuenging Gods, / ’Gainst Paricides did all the thunder bend […]

2. Someone who commits treason.
3. The killing of a relative, especially a parent.
   • 1856, Mrs. William Busk, Mediæval Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Crusaders: Or, Germany, Italy and Palestine, from A.D. 1125 to A.D. 1268‎^[1], volume IV, London: Hookham and Sons, →OCLC, page 294:

     The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation.

4. The killing of a ruler, or other authority figure; treason.

Translations

someone who kills a relative

• Finnish: isänmurhaaja, äidinmurhaaja
• French: parricide (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: fadermördare c, modermördare c

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin parricīda (“a kin murderer”).

Noun

parricide m (plural parricides)

1. parricide (someone who kills a relative, especially a parent)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin parricīdium (“murder of a relative”).

Noun

parricide m (plural parricides)

1. parricide, murder of one's close relative

Further reading

• “parricide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Noun

parricide f

1. plural of parricida

Anagrams

• pericardi

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Middle French

Noun

parricide m (plural parricides)

1. parricide (killing of one's own father)
   • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 5:

     […] par ce que ces oysillons ne cessoient de l'accuser faucement du meurtre de son pere. Ce parricide jusques lors avoit esté occulte et inconnu

     […] because these baby birds wouldn't stop falsely accusing him of the murder of his father. This parricide until now had been unknown

Descendants

• → English: parricide
• French: parricide