English

Noun

parricide ‎(plural parricides)

1. Someone who kills a relative, especially a parent.
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear II.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, volume IV, London: Hookham and Sons, OCLC 2480341, 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.

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

Translations

French

Noun

parricide m ‎(plural parricides)

1. parricide, murder of one's close relative
2. (by extension) someone who commits parricide

Italian

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 (borrowed)
• French: parricide