tyrannicide

English

Etymology

From French tyrannicide, from Latin tyrannicīda. Equivalent to tyrant +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /taɪˈɹænɪsaɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tyrannicide (countable and uncountable, plural tyrannicides)

1. The killing of a tyrant.
2. Someone who kills a tyrant.
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 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.

Hypernyms

(killing of a tyrant):

• assassination
• regicide

(killer of a tyrant):

• assassin
• regicide

Translations

killing of a tyrant

• French: tyrannicide (fr) m
• German: Tyrannenmord (de) m
• Latin: tyrannicidium n
• Spanish: tiranicidio (es) m

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁa.ni.sid/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tyrannicide m (plural tyrannicides)

1. tyrannicide
2. a person who performs tyrannicide

Further reading

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