Tyrannicide

Definition: Tyrannicide

Tyrannicide

Noun

1. Killing a tyrant.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tyrannicide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Etymology: Tyrannicide \Ty*ran"ni*ci`de\, noun. [Latin expression tyrannicidium the killing of tyrant, tyrannicida the killer of tyrant; tyrannus tyrant caedere to kill: compare to the French expression tyrannicide.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Tyrannicide

French (tyrannicide).

Books

• Des révolutions d'Angleterre à la Révolution française; le tyrannicide & Killing no murder (Cromwell, Athalie, Bonaparte) (reference)

• Political Murder: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism (reference)

• The assassination of Henry IV; the tyrannicide problem and the consolidation of the French absolute monarchy in the early seventeenth century (reference)

• The policy of Brutus the Tyrannicide (reference)

• Tyrannicide and drama (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

tiranvrasje, tiranvrasës. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قتل المستبد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

убиване на тиранин, убиец на тиранин. (various references)

French

tyrannicide. (various references)

Greek 

τυραννοκτόνοσ (tyrannicidal), τυραννοκτονία. (various references)

Hungarian

zsarnokölõ. (various references)

Italian

tirannicidio. (various references)

Pig Latin

yrannicidetay

Portuguese

tiranicida, tiranicídio. (various references)

Russian 

тираноубийство, тираноубийца. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ubistvo tiranina. (various references)

Swedish

tyrannmordare, mord på tyrann. (various references)

Turkish

zalimi öldürme, zalimi öldüren kimse. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người giết bạo chúa sự giết bạo chúa. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tyrannicide": tyrannicides. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: incendiary, itinerancy.

-2 letters: ancientry, carnitine, rancidity.

-3 letters: acridine, acridity, actinide, caninity, crannied, ctenidia, cytidine, daintier, dicentra, incanted, incident, indicant, indicate, indicter, indirect, raticide, reindict, triennia, tyrannic.

-4 letters: acidity, ancient, antired, ardency, aridity, cairned, candent, cannery, cannier, ceratin, certain, cindery, cinerin, citrine, creatin, crinite, cyanide, cyanine, cyanite, denarii, detrain, dictier, dietary, dineric, edacity, entrain, identic.

+1 letter: tyrannicides.

+2 letters: indeterminacy.

+4 letters: inconsiderately.

+5 letters: indiscriminately, nondiscretionary, unidirectionally.