Patricide, matricide and various-other-members-of-your-family-cide
dicentra63
dicentra at xmission.com
Sat Oct 5 00:11:37 UTC 2002
--- In HP4GU-FAQ at y..., "lucky_kari" <lucky_kari at y...> wrote:
>
> Yes, we need a word to deal with
>
> Riddle killing father and grandparents.
> Hagrid's Mum killing Hagrid's Dad.
> Crouch Jr. killing Crouch Sr.
> Gran (almost) killing Frank Longbottom.
> Lucius killing Draco.
> Draco killing Lucius.
> Lucius killing Narcissa
>
I Googled and Rogeted it and there is no word in English to convey
that general concept. There is also no prefix meaining "family." But
the Google search did turn up some neologisms: "Home"-icide to
describe teens going postal on their families and kinsman-icide to
describe what goes on in "The Sopranos."
"Famlicide" might work, ne?
--Dicey, who likes the ring of it
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