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parricide

[ par-uh-sahyd ]

noun

  1. the act of killing one's father, mother, or other close relative.
  2. a person who commits such an act.


parricide

/ ˈæɪˌɪ /

noun

  1. the act of killing either of one's parents
  2. a person who kills his parent
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Derived Forms

  • ˌ貹ˈ岹, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • 貹r·a adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of parricide1

1545–55; < Latin 貹īܳ act of kin-murder, 貹ī岹 kin-killer, equivalent to - (akin to Greek ó, Attic ŧó kinsman) + -cīdum, -cida -cide
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of parricide1

C16: from Latin 貹ī徱ܳ murder of a parent or relative, and from 貹ī岹 one who murders a relative, from parri- (element related to Greek ŧDz kinsman) + -cīdium, -cīda -cide
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Indeed, Homo sapiens would be gone precisely because we avoided final extinction, as our successor is what murdered us — a technological case of parricide.

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Comedy is especially susceptible to generational change and bias; although young comics often cite older ones as inspirations, and a few giants remain funny across the decades, the art survives by parricide.

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There Oliverotto too was captured, a year after he committed his parricide, and together with Vittellozzo, who had been his teacher in his virtues and wickedness, he was strangled.

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Why would one woman commit mass parricide by poisoning 300 relatives, family friends, and herself at what should've been a joyous celebration?

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"It was like a Greek tragedy unfolding, and it ended like a Greek tragedy - in a symbolic parricide," says journalist Olivier Beaumont.

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