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parricide

/pa.ʁi.sid/

noun, masculine/pa.ʁi.sid/plural: parricides

parricide (someone who kills a relative, especially a parent)

Inherited from Middle French parricide, from Latin parricīda (“a kin murderer”).

noun, masculine/pa.ʁi.sid/plural: parricides

parricide, murder of one's close relative

Inherited from Middle French parricide, from Latin parricīdium (“murder of a relative”).