tyrannicide

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French tyrannicide, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tyrannicīda. Equivalent to +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɪˈɹænɪsaɪd/

Noun

tyrannicide (countable and uncountable, plural tyrannicides)

1. The killing of a tyrant.
2. Someone who kills a tyrant.
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 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.

Translations

killing of a tyrant

• French: tyrannicide (fr) m
• German: Tyrannenmord (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: tyrannicidium n

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French

Noun

tyrannicide m (plural tyrannicides)

1. tyrannicide
2. a person who performs tyrannicide

Further reading

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