different between patricide vs fratricide

English

Etymology

From Latin patric?da. Equivalent to patri- +? -cide.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæt??sa?d/

Noun

patricide (countable and uncountable, plural patricides)

1. Murder of one's father.
2. A murderer of his/her own father.

Synonyms

• (murderer of one's father): father-slayer

Translations

See also

• filicide
• genocide
• homicide
• infanticide
• matricide
• regicide
• suicide
• uxoricide

Anagrams

• pediatric

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