parricide

English

Etymology

From Middle French parricide, from Latin parricīda and parricīdium, of uncertain origin, perhaps from pār (“equal”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpæ.ɹɪ.saɪd/

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Noun

parricide (countable and uncountable, plural parricides)

1. Someone who kills a relative, especially a parent.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     I told him the reuenging Gods, / ’Gainst Paricides did all the thunder bend […]

2. Someone who commits treason.
3. The killing of a relative, especially a parent.
   • 1856, Mrs. William Busk, Mediæval Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Crusaders: Or, Germany, Italy and Palestine, from A.D. 1125 to A.D. 1268‎^[1], volume IV, London: Hookham and Sons, →OCLC, page 294:

     The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation.

   • 1861 July 27, The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 1761, London, page 116, column 1:

     The production of Schiller’s ‘Don Carlos’ was long forbidden, because Don Carlos loved his stepmother; in ‘The Robbers,’ the Father was turned into an uncle, and a stupendous effect was produced by the cry of “Unclecide,” substituted for Parricide.

4. The killing of a ruler, or other authority figure; treason.

Synonyms

• (when referring to a parent) parenticide

Translations

someone who kills a relative

• Bulgarian: отцеубиец m (otceubiec)
• Catalan: parricida m or f
• Finnish: isänmurhaaja, äidinmurhaaja
• French: parricide (fr) m or f
• German: Verwandtenmörder m, Verwandtenmörderin f, Elternmörder m (parent), Elternmörderin f (parent)
• Italian: parricida (it)
• Portuguese: parricida (pt) m or f
• Spanish: parricida (es) m or f
• Swedish: fadermördare (sv) c, modermördare c

killing of a relative

• Catalan: parricidi m
• Finnish: sukulaisen surma, sukulaisen tappo, sukulaisen murha
• French: parricide (fr) m
• German: Parrizid m, Verwandtenmord m, Elternmord m (parent)
• Italian: parricidio (it) m
• Polish: zabójstwo rodziny n
• Portuguese: parricídio (pt) m
• Spanish: parricidio m

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁi.sid/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French parricide, from Latin parricīda (“a kin murderer”).

Noun

parricide m (plural parricides)

1. parricide (someone who kills a relative, especially a parent)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French parricide, from Latin parricīdium (“murder of a relative”).

Noun

parricide m (plural parricides)

1. parricide, murder of one's close relative

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /par.riˈt͡ʃi.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: par‧ri‧cì‧de

Noun

parricide f

1. plural of parricida

Anagrams

• pericardi

Middle French

Noun

parricide m (plural parricides)

1. parricide (killing of one's own father)
   • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 5:

     […] par ce que ces oysillons ne cessoient de l'accuser faucement du meurtre de son pere. Ce parricide jusques lors avoit esté occulte et inconnu

     […] because these baby birds wouldn't stop falsely accusing him of the murder of his father. This parricide until now had been unknown

Descendants

• → English: parricide
• French: parricide