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Regicide
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For other uses, see Regicide (disambiguation).
Broadly, regicide refers to the act of deliberately killing a monarch, or to the perpetrator and abettors of that act. In a narrower sense, it usually refers to the murder of one's own legal sovereign. In British tradition, it refers to the judicial execution of a king after alleged due process of law.
regicide
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | Date: 1996
regicide: one who kills a king. L. rēx, rēg- king + -CIDE1.
So regicide2 (-CIDE2) killing of a king.
-cide
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | Date: 1996
-cide 1 repr. F. -cide, L. -cīda -killer, f. cædere (-cīdere) cut down, kill, as in homicīda HOMICIDE 2, parricīda PARRICIDE 1.
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