patricide

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle French patricide or Latin patricidīum. Equivalent to patri- +‎ -cide.

Noun

patricide (countable and uncountable, plural patricides)

1. Murder of one's father.

Translations

murder of one's father

• Asturian: parricidiu m
• Bulgarian: отцеуби́йство (otceubíjstvo)
• Catalan: parricidi m
• Czech: otcovražda (cs) f
• Finnish: isänmurha
• French: patricide (fr) m
• Galician: parricidio m
• German: Vatermord (de) m, Patrizid (de) m
• Greek: πατροκτονία (el) f (patroktonía)

  Ancient: πατροκτονία f (patroktonía)

• Hungarian: apagyilkosság (hu)
• Italian: parricidio (it) m, patricidio m
• Kazakh: әке өлтірушілік (äke öltıruşılık)
• 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, patricidio m
• Swedish: fadersmord n
• Tagalog: parisidyo, patrisidyo

Etymology 2

From Middle French patricide or Latin patricīda. Equivalent to patri- +‎ -cide.

Noun

patricide (plural patricides)

1. A murderer of his/her own father.

Synonyms

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

Translations

murderer of own father

• Armenian: հայրասպան (hy) (hayraspan)
• Bulgarian: отцеуби́ец m (otceubíec)
• Catalan: parricida m or f
• 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)
• Italian: parricida (it) m or f, patricida m or f
• 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
• Spanish: parricida (es) m or f, patricida m or f
• Swedish: fadermördare (sv) c

See also

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

Anagrams

• pediatric