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parricide

[ par-uh-sahyd ]

noun

  1. the act of killing one's father, mother, or other close relative.
  2. a person who commits such an act.


parricide

/ ˈpærɪˌsaɪd /

noun

  1. the act of killing either of one's parents
  2. a person who kills his parent
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌparriˈcidal, adjective
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Other Words From

  • parri·cidal adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of parricide1

1545–55; < Latin parricīdum act of kin-murder, parricīda kin-killer, equivalent to pāri- (akin to Greek pāós, Attic pēós kinsman) + -cīdum, -cida -cide
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Word History and Origins

Origin of parricide1

C16: from Latin parricīdium murder of a parent or relative, and from parricīda one who murders a relative, from parri- (element related to Greek pēos kinsman) + -cīdium, -cīda -cide
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Example Sentences

It is but too true that one fanatic is sufficient for the commission of a parricide, without any accomplice.

But a fanatical or parricide priest is not incited in this way; heaven is held out to him, and not a woman.

The boys had too much intelligence and shrewdness not to have judged their father; and to judge a father is moral parricide.

Now we are asked to allow a tomb-haunter to call a parricide to disclose that which he himself is ignorant of.

The contemplating a father's death and profiting by the contemplation—it seems a kind of parricide—it is not natural, Randal.

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