tyrannicide
English
Etymology
From French tyrannicide, from Latin tyrannicīda. Equivalent to tyrant + -cide.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /taɪˈɹænɪsaɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
tyrannicide (countable and uncountable, plural tyrannicides)
- The killing of a tyrant.
- 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.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 51:
Hypernyms
(killing of a tyrant):
- assassination
- regicide
(killer of a tyrant):
- assassin
- regicide
Translations
killing of a tyrant
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti.ʁa.ni.sid/
Audio (file)
Noun
tyrannicide m (plural tyrannicides)
- tyrannicide
- a person who performs tyrannicide
Further reading
- “tyrannicide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.