patricide

patricide

English

Etymology

From Latin patricīda. Equivalent to patri- +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpætɹɪsaɪd/

Noun

patricide (countable and uncountable, plural patricides)

1. Murder of one's father.
2. A murderer of his/her own father.

Synonyms

• (murderer of one's father): father-slayer

Translations

murder of one's father

Asturian: parricidiu m Catalan: parricidi m Czech: otcovražda f Finnish: isänmurha French: patricide (fr) m Galician: parricidio m German: Vatermord (de) m Greek: πατροκτονία (el) f (patroktonía)

Hungarian: apagyilkosság (hu) Latin: pātricīdium n Polish: ojcobójstwo n Portuguese: parricídio (pt) m, patricídio (pt) m Russian: отцеуби́йство (ru) n (otceubíjstvo) Serbo-Croatian: oceubistvo Slovene: očetomor m Spanish: parricidio m

murderer of own father

Czech: otcovrah (cs) m Finnish: isänmurhaaja French: patricide (fr) m German: Vatermörder (de) m, Vatermörderin (de) f Greek: πατροκτόνος (el) m or f (patroktónos) Ancient: πατραλοίας m (patraloías) Hungarian: apagyilkos (hu)

Latin: pātricīda m Polish: ojcobójca (pl) m, ojcobójczyni f Portuguese: parricida (pt) m or f, patricida (pt) m or f Russian: отцеуби́йца (ru) m or f (otceubíjca) Serbo-Croatian: oceubica Slovene: očetomorilec m, očetomorilka f

See also

• filicide
• genocide
• homicide
• infanticide
• matricide
• regicide
• suicide
• uxoricide

Anagrams

• pediatric