Latin for “kill” #
Latin Phrases: tend to add gravitas or significance.
Homicide
To kill another human being is always murder; unless of course, it is accompanied by trumpets. Voltaire
The death of one person is a tragedy; the death of 50,000, becomes a statistic. Stalin
There are four kinds of homicides: felonious, excusable, justifiable and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another – the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.” * Ambrose Bierce
Democide is the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder.
Tyrannicide is ending immunity of authorities.
The following words originating in Latin or Greek referring to Killing are less emotive than our more common words.
Uxoricide, fratricide, germicide, sororicide, infanticide, insecticide, femicide, genocide, Matricide, filicide, parricide, patricide, regicide, suicide, homicide, androcidal, omnicide, amicide, feticide, democide, tyrannicide, verbicide, ecocide
Which of the above words relate to killing:
- a brother
- one’s self
- any human being
- one’s mother
- insects
- one’s wife
- one’s sister
- everything
- germs
- one’s children
- any infant
- one’s father
- any near relative
- any woman
- a king
- An entire race
- A friend
- A fetus
- One’s husband
- immunity
- ecocide
- men