Killing your sibling. Also used for killing your brother-in-arms, your fellow soldier. From the Latin
fratricida. Frater (brother) also appears in fraternity and fraternize. Cida (killer) appears in all sorts of words.
- Suicide - killing self
- Homicide - killing another person
- Genocide - killing a cultural group
- Regicide - killing your king
- Insecticide - killing bugs
- Deicide - killing God
- Vaccicide - killing cows
- hirudicide - killing leeches
and my favorite...
- Onmicide - Destroying everything
You can
-cide just about anything you want using Latin and English. Art is
Cain practicing fratricide on Abel from a 12th century mosaic.
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