Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The killing of one's brother or sister.
- n. One who has killed one's brother or sister.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who murders or kills a brother.
- n. The act of murdering or killing a brother.
Wiktionary
- n. The killing of one's brother (or sister).
- n. A person who commits this crime.
- n. military, by extension The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
- n. One who murders or kills his own brother.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who murders their brother or sister
- n. fire that injures or kills an ally
- n. the murder of your sibling
Etymologies
- From Latin frater ("brother") + caedere ("to kill"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin frātricīdium and frātricīda : frāter, frātr-, brother; see bhrāter- in Indo-European roots + -cīdium and -cīda, -cide. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“An investigation was immediately launched, and several documents show that the local chain of command was largely convinced it was fratricide from the beginning.”
“This caused the Venetian government to seize their treasure and to commission the statues as a cautionary, perpetual reminder that fratricide is considered very, very rude in that part of the world.”
“Frank J. Sulloway in his Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives (New York: Random House, 1996) gives a paragraph to the Díaz brothers (273) and throughout his book refers to fratricide and sibling rivalry.”
“The U.S. military refers to it as fratricide, which is the killing of a brother.”
“Tillman was on his second tour of duty when he was killed in Afghanistan -- a victim of "fratricide," inadvertently killed by his own troops during an ill-fated expedition.”
The Huffington Post: Rory O'Connor: The Tillman Story -- Just Give Us Some Truth
“The poem proceeds to move fear away from political theology and ultimately toward a secular account of legitimate retributive justice — in which fear is invoked as a highly specific accompaniment to the notion of deserved punishment for the "fratricide" that”
“In service as an Army Ranger, Tillman was shot by another American in what the military calls "fratricide," but what the rest of the nation knows as "friendly fire.”
“He also thought that the problem posed by "fratricide" would preclude a successful first strike.”
“It would be a grave intellectual mistake, if you've read Genesis, to speak of fratricide as if it were invented by videogames.”
“In Vietnam, friendly-fire casualties-or "fratricide," as the Pentagon calls them-skyrocketed to somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of all casualties.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fratricide’.
-
Precise words to describe murder
Suicide, infanticide, fraticide, you name it.
homocide, filicide, infanticide, parricide, matricide, patricide, suicide, spermicide, fratricide, regicide, uxoricide, vatricide and 10 more...
-
-cide
patricide, suicide, matricide, fratricide, regicide, insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, barbicide, ethnocide, foeticide, genocide and 4 more...
-
-cide, -cidal
of killing or a killer
regicide, homicide, suicide, suicidal, spermicide, spermicidal, matricide, patricide, infanticide, sororicide, fratricide, parricidious and 2 more...
-
ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
-
Hitch Words
Words from the lexicon of Christopher Hitchens
propinquity, fratricide, factitious, vitiate, sectarianism, ostensible, atavistic, sephardic, doyen, palpable, encephalitic, fastidious and 188 more...
-
ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
-
elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
-
bearfax december 2006
opulent, spot, kaffee, sift, cedar, pushy, buckwheat, zydeco, chemeketa, hood, blood, food and 107 more...
-
miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
-
CryoTox's Words
libertine, lithe, fervent, amative, mollify, inchoate, gracious, wheedle, charlatan, idolatry, saunter, exonerate and 4 more...
-
-cide
homicide, patricide, matricide, filicide, sororicide, infanticide, suicide, genocide, fratricide, regicide, democide, familicide and 10 more...
-
Apple -cide(r)?
felicide, fratricide, matricide, patricide, infanticide, sororicide, regicide, genocide, homicide, pesticide, bactericide, suicide and 36 more...
-
12th Grade Unit 6
aesthetic, anthropomorphic, ectomorphic, mesomorphic, metamorphosis, fratricide, genocide, herbicide, matricide, patricide, pesticide, regicide and 3 more...
-
SockFullOfPennies's Words
spaghettification, simultaneity, instantaneity, prestidigitation, recalcitrant, retronym, uncouple, decouple, ept, evanescent, prodigious, fratricide and 61 more...
-
The Other Cide of Death
Words ending in "cide"
matricide, patricide, infanticide, parricide, insecticide, filicide, acaricide, algicide, avicide, bactericide, barbicide, biocide and 59 more...
-
gracetherein's Words
fratricide, polyamorous, triage, pedant, hinky, inundate, dearth, segue, dipsomaniac, gravid, portcullis, mamihlapinatapai and 8 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fratricide.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.