fratricide
Meaning of fratricide
- the killing of one's brother or sister.
Cain justifies his fratricide with lethal logic
late 15th century (denoting a person who kills their brother or sister, derived from Latin fratricida ): the primary current sense comes via French from late Latin fratricidium, from frater ‘brother’ + -cidium (see -cide).
Information about fratricide
- It is a name.
- The plural form of fratricide is: fratricides.
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Hyphenation of fratricide
frat-ri-cide
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- fratricide is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of fratricide
- French: fratricide
- Italian: fratricidio
- Spanish: fratricidio, fratricida
Words that rhyme with fratricide
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