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patricide

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patricide /ˈpætrəˈsaɪd/ noun
plural patricides
patricide
/ˈpætrəˈsaɪd/
noun
plural patricides
Learner's definition of PATRICIDE
[count]
: the act of murdering your own father弑父(行为) compare fratricide, matricide
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patricide

noun

pat·​ri·​cide ˈpa-trə-ˌsīd How to pronounce patricide (audio)
1
[Latin patricida, from patr- + -cida -cide] : one who murders his or her own father
2
[Late Latin patricidium, from Latin patr- + -cidium -cide] : the murder of one's own father
patricidal adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web After all, Kendall’s methods since his press-conference patricide at the end of Season 2 have come straight out of Logan’s playbook—and this season has delighted in the parallels. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2021 And Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) kills the planet that is his father - a private Ragnarok that's also a righteous patricide. Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 June 2021 As recently as the early 20th century, Chinese fathers could murder sons and get off with a warning; punishments for patricide, by contrast, were strict. Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2020 The final bill preserves the tax, but temporarily doubles those thresholds — in 2026, the status quo estate tax go back into effect (watch out for an uptick in patricides among the one percent in 2025). Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017 And so a new narrative emerged, one of patricide -- the killing of one's father. Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 18 July 2017 Yet Western culture has been haunted for millennia by the wretched House of Atreus – cursed through the generations with fratricide, patricide, filicide, mariticide, and matricide. Steven G. Kellman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2017 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1576, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of patricide was in 1576
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