different between fratricide vs suicide

English

Etymology

From Middle English fratricide, from Old French fratricide, from Latin fr?tric?da.

Noun

fratricide (countable and uncountable, plural fratricides)

1. The killing of one's brother (or sister).
2. A person who commits this crime.
   • 1936, H. A. L. Fisher, A History of Europe, Edward Arnold Publishers, p.376,

     The conversion of Russia to Christianity was effected, it would seem by a monster of cruelty and lust. That Vladimir (980–1015) was a fratricide, who maintained 3,500 concubines, has not prevented his canonization as a saint.

3. (military, by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
   • 1999, Richard M. Swain, Lucky War: Third Army in Desert Storm, DIANE Publishing, page 180,

     From January on, Third Army also spent a good deal of energy trying to solve the problem of fratricide, the killing or injuring of one's own forces by what is ironically called 'friendly fire,' […]

4. (military, by extension) The undesirable situation where the separate missiles from a MIRV interfere with each other as they explode.

Synonyms

• (person who commits fratricide): brother-slayer

Derived terms

• fratricidal

Related terms

• (murder): homicide
• (murder of father): patricide
• (murder of king): regicide
• (murder of sister): sororicide
• (military): friendly fire

Translations

French

Noun

fratricide m (plural fratricides)

1. fratricide (crime)
2. fratricide (person who commits this crime)

Adjective

fratricide (plural fratricides)

1. fratricidal

Further reading

• “fratricide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Adjective

fratricide

1. feminine plural of fratricida

Noun

fratricide f pl

1. plural of fratricida

English

Etymology

1651, New Latin coinage (probably originating in English) su?c?dium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u???sa?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?su??sa?d/
• Hyphenation: su?i?cide

Noun

suicide (countable and uncountable, plural suicides)

1. (uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself.

   Synonyms: self-killing, self-murder, self-slaughter, self-blood, self-slaying

   • 1904, Harold MacGrath, The Man On The Box, ch. 22:

     The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.
2. (countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
   • 1919, Edgar Wallace, The Secret House, ch. 14:

     There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.

   • 1999, Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Edinburgh University Press, ?ISBN, page 192:

     In this way the Heaven’s Gate community were not only escaping the threat of ‘global destruction’, they were hurling themselves directly into ‘the lap of God’, using their suicide as a way of ‘bridging the chasm’ between an earthly world which had no future and ‘a thousand years of unmitigated peace’.

3. (countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, ch. 95:

     "I remember one suicide," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."

4. (figuratively) An action that could cause the literal or figurative death of a person or organization, although death is not the aim of the action.
   • 1959, Everett Dirksen, in the Congressional Record, Feb. 9, page 2100:^[2]

     […] I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

   • 2000, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, The Ice Limit ?ISBN:

     “Mr. Glinn,” said Britton, “it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather.”
5. (countable, US, slang) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.

   Synonyms: graveyard, swamp water

   • 1994, Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California, University of Nevada Press, ?ISBN, page 34:

     You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide, and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding soda water.

   • 2000, Mark Pendergrast, For God, Country and Coca-Cola, Basic Books, ?ISBN, page 15:

     Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.

6. A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
7. (countable) A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.

   The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.

8. A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
9. (attributive) pertaining to a suicide bombing; as suicide belt, suicide vest

Usage notes

• See usage note at commit suicide.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:kill

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (children's game): dodgeball, tag

Verb

suicide (third-person singular simple present suicides, present participle suiciding, simple past and past participle suicided)

1. (intransitive) To kill oneself intentionally.
   • 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, ch. 11:

     "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"

   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, page 136:

     Seems a lady poet suicided at Verringer's ranch in Sepulveda canyon one time.

2. (transitive) To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
   • 1898 October 29, in Punch, or the London charivari, page 196:

     Have bought The Shanghai Chopsticks. Proprietor at first refused to sell, but when I ordered the boiling oil he became more reasonable. Editor reports that circulation is not what it ought to be. […] Will publish proclaimation, "Any person found not in possession of The Shanghai Chopsticks (current number) will be suicided."
3. To self-destruct.

Synonyms

• autodarwinate, top oneself, commit suicide, do oneself in, self-kill
• (to put to death): see kill, murder, disappear
• See also Thesaurus:kill

Adjective

suicide (not comparable)

1. Relating to suicide.

Translations

See also

• hara-kiri
• kamikaze
• seppuku

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?i.sid/
• Homophones: suicident, suicides

Etymology 1

Before the 1700s called homicide de soi-même; see above.

Noun

suicide m (plural suicides)

1. suicide

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

suicide

1. inflection of suicider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “suicide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Adjective

suicide f pl

1. feminine plural of suicida

Noun

suicide f pl

1. plural of suicida

Anagrams

• sudicie

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English suicide.

Noun

suicide m (plural suicides)

1. (Jersey) suicide

Portuguese

Verb

suicide

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suicidar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of suicidar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suicidar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suicidar

Spanish

Verb

suicide

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of suicidar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of suicidar.