parricidium

From Latin parricidium.

• Hyphenation: par‧ri‧ci‧di‧um

parricidium n (plural parricidia or parricidiums, no diminutive)

1. parricide

• moedermoord
• vadermoord

pār (“even”) +‎ -cīdium, or parricīda +‎ -ium

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paːr.rɪˈkiː.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [par.riˈt͡ʃiː.di.um]

parricīdium n (genitive parricīdiī or parricīdī); second declension

1. parricide (act)
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.17:

     Nunc tē patria, quae commūnis est parēns omnium nostrum, ōdit ac metuit et iam diū nihil tē iūdicat nisi dē parricīdiō suō cōgitāre; huius tū neque auctōritātem verēbere nec iūdicium sequēre nec vim pertimēscēs?

     Now your country — which is the common parent of us all — hates and fears you, and for a long time now has judged that you think about nothing except its own parricide; will you neither respect the authority, nor follow the judgment, nor greatly fear the force of this [parent]?
     (Cicero accuses Catiline of multiple attempts to kill Rome’s leading men: the fathers of the fatherland. The final three clauses, neque … nec … nec, form a tricolon crescens.)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• parricida

• Catalan: parricidi
• Italian: parricidio
• Portuguese: parricídio
• Spanish: parricidio

• “parricidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “parricidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “parricidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “parricidium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers