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Patricide (or paternal homicide) is the act of killing one's own father. The word patricide derives from the Latin word pater (father) and the suffix -cida (cutter or killer). Patricide is a sub-form of parricide , which is defined as an act of killing a close relative. [ 1 ]
Patricide – the act of killing of one's father. (Latin: pater "father"). Senicide – the killing of one's elderly family members. (Latin: senex "old man"). Siblicide – the killing of an infant individual by their close relatives (full or half siblings).
It is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to acts of matricide, the deliberate killing of one's own mother [2] and patricide, the deliberate killing of one's own father. [3] The term parricide is also used to refer to many familicides (i.e., family annihilations wherein at least one parent is murdered along with other family members).
Fiction about patricide (3 C, 88 P) M. Mythological patricides (6 P) Pages in category "Patricides" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total.
A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which an individual kills multiple close family members in quick succession, most often children, spouses, siblings, or parents.
The 19th-century historian Theodor Mommsen compiled and described in detail the various elements that at one time or another have been asserted as elements within the ritualistic execution of a patricide during the Roman Era, and while the following paragraph is based on that description it is not to be regarded as a static ritual that always was observed, but as a descriptive enumeration of ...
Patricide; Senicide; Other; ... in the context of the "Hamidian massacres" used a "basic working definition" of "by massacre we shall mean the intentional killing by ...
These include patricide, law and order, and a variety of social problems. [6] The writing of The Brothers Karamazov was altered by a personal tragedy: in May 1878, Dostoevsky's 3-year-old son Alyosha died of epilepsy, [7] a condition inherited from his father. The novelist's grief is apparent throughout the book.