fratricide
Etymology 1
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Etymology 1
From Middle French fratricide or its etymon Latin frātricīdium.
Nounfratricide
- The killing of one's brother (or sister).
- (military, by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
- (military, by extension) The undesirable situation where the separate missiles from a MIRV interfere with each other as they explode.
- (murder) homicide
- (murder of father) patricide
- (murder of king) regicide
- (murder of sister) sororicide
- French: fratricide
- German: Brudermord (of a brother), Geschwistermord (of a sibling), Geschwistertötung (of a sibling), Fratrizid
- Italian: fratricidio
- Portuguese: fratricídio
- Russian: братоуби́йство
- Spanish: fratricidio
From Middle English fratricide, from Middle French fratricide or its etymon Latin frātricīda.
Nounfratricide (plural fratricides)
- A person who commits fratricide.
- 1853, John Ruskin, “Roman Renaissance”, in The Stones of Venice, volume III (The Fall), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC ↗, § LVI, page 73 ↗:
- Can Signorio was twice a fratricide, the last time when he lay upon his death-bed: his tomb bears upon its gables the images of six virtues, — Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, and (I believe) Justice and Fortitude.
- French: fratricide
- German: Brudermörder, Brudermörderin, Geschwistermörder (of a sibling), Geschwistermörderin (of a sibling)
- Italian: fratricida
- Portuguese: fratricida
- Russian: братоуби́йца
- Spanish: fratricida
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