Patricide+or+matricide

  • 1patricide, parricide, matricide — The Latin element cide means killer (as in regicide, the killing of a king; genocide, the planned annihilation of a cultural, political, or racial group; and insecticide, an agent used to kill insects). Patricide means one who murders his father… …

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  • 2Patricide — is (i) the act of killing one s father, or (ii) a person who kills his or her father. The word patricide derives from the Latin word pater (father) and the Latin suffix cida (cutter or killer). Patricide is a sub form of parricide, which is… …

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  • 3matricide — See patricide. See patricide, parricide, matricide …

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  • 4patricide — See patricide, parricide, matricide …

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  • 5Matricide — Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William Adolphe Bouguereau. Clytemnestra was murdered by Orestes and the Furies torment him for his crime …

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  • 6matricide — mat|ri|cide [ˈmætrısaıd] n [U] formal the crime of murdering your mother →↑parricide, patricide ↑patricide …

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  • 7matricide — 1. The killing of one s mother. Cf.:patricide. 2. One who commits such an act. [L. mater, mother, + caedo, to kill] * * * ma·tri·cide ma trə .sīd, mā n 1) murder of a mother by her son or daughter 2) one that murders his or her mother …

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  • 8patricide — 1. The killing of one s father. 2. One who commits such an act. See parricide. Cf.:matricide. [L. pater, father, + caedo, to kill] * * * pat·ri·cide pa trə .sīd n murder of a father by his son or daughter …

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  • 9matricide — Synonyms and related words: aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, microbicide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, regicide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide, uxoricide, vermicide …

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  • 10patricide — Synonyms and related words: aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide, parricide, pesticide, regicide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide, uxoricide, vermicide …

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