regicide

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: reg=i=cide

CIDE DICTIONARY

regicide, n. [F. régicide; L. rex, regis, a king + caedere to kill. Cf. Homicide.].

•  One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng. Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.  [1913 Webster]
•  The killing or the murder of a king.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

regicide, n.
1 a person who kills or takes part in killing a king.
2 the act of killing a king.

Derivative

regicidal adj.

Etymology

L rex regis king + -CIDE

THESAURUS

regicide

aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide, uxoricide, vermicide

ROGET THESAURUS

regicide

Killing

N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.