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parricidal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
par-ri-ci-dal
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Related to, inclined to, or guilty of, the murder of one's immediate family.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin parricīdālis. By surface analysis, parricide + -al.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: parricīdālis

Inflected Forms

more parricidal (comparative) most parricidal (superlative) parricidial (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

parricidally

Questions

What does parricidal mean?
Related to, inclined to, or guilty of, the murder of one's immediate family.
Where does parricidal come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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