tyrannicide
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French tyrannicide, from Latin tyrannicīda. Equivalent to tyrant + -cide.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tyrannicide (countable and uncountable, plural tyrannicides)
- The killing of a tyrant.
- Someone who kills a tyrant.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 51:
- Princip had even found time to learn by heart the entirety of The Mountain Wreath, Petrović-Njegos's stirring epic celebration of the selfless tyrannicide Miloš Obilić.
Hypernyms[edit]
(killing of a tyrant):
(killer of a tyrant):
Translations[edit]
killing of a tyrant
|
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tyrannicide m (plural tyrannicides)
- tyrannicide
- a person who performs tyrannicide
Further reading[edit]
- “tyrannicide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English terms suffixed with -cide (killer)
- English terms suffixed with -cide (killing)
- en:Death
- French 4-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns