Patricide

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Patricide \Pat*ri"cide\, n. [L. pater father + caedere to kill.
     Cf. {Parricide}.]
     1. The murderer of his father.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The crime of one who murders his father. Same as


        {Parricide}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  patricide
       n 1: a person who murders their father
       2: murder of your father

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "patricide":
     aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide,
     homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide,
     parricide, pesticide, regicide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide,
     uxoricide, vermicide
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PATRICIDE. One guilty of killing his father.