fratricides
Meaning of fratricides
- 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 fratricides
- It is a name.
- The singular form of fratricides is: fratricide.
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Hyphenation of fratricides
frat-ri-cides
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- fratricides is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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