# Murder **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 26, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464 "2000-10-26T18:51:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/1 "2000-10-26T18:51:34Z")
What different -cides are there? By -cide I mean homocide or suicide. I know -cide means murder and I can think a few others (like genocide and regicide) but there surely has to be more. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/2 "2000-10-26T18:53:07Z")
herbicide, pesticide ---
**Author:** ![muppetsoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@muppetsoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muppetsoup)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/3 "2000-10-26T18:55:14Z")
patricide, matricide (killing father, mother respectively). I’m anything you can kill, you can come up with a -cide for. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/4 "2000-10-26T18:55:26Z")
insecticide ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/5 "2000-10-26T18:57:30Z")
_Homicide_ surely, not _homocide_ (dread to think what that means!) Lessee… **vermicide** (worms), **fungicide** , is **uxoricide** a word or am I hallucinating? **deicide** , **tyrannicide** (maybe hallucinating again on that one), **patricide** and **fratricide**. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/6 "2000-10-26T18:58:56Z")
If Gabby Hayes had accompanied Oscar Wilde on his tour of the western U.S., would he have been referred to as a homocidekick? ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/7 "2000-10-26T19:02:31Z")
Infanticide Lucocide 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/8 "2000-10-26T19:25:01Z")
homicide - killing someone regicide - killing a king or ruler parricide - killing one’s father, mother, or other near relative filicide - killing one’s son or daughter fratricide - killing one’s brother sororicide - killing one’s sister infanticide - killing an infant feticide - killing a fetus foeticide - same as “feticide” uxoricide - killing of a wife by her husband vaticide - killing a prophet deicide - killing a divine being (often used to refer to Jesus’ execution) ## ecocide - deliberate destruction of the environment eh, that’s enough without going into “spermicide” and such. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/9 "2000-10-28T00:50:18Z")
Words and phrases that contain the letters cide: 'cide, alcide, alcides, suicide, aeacides, feticide, genocide, homicide, viricide, regicide, silicide, homicides, homocide, herbicide, acaracide, acaricide, germicide, pesticide, fungicide, larvicide, matricide, parricide, patricide, scabicide, fungicides, pesticides, parricides, aborticide, spermicide, fratricide, bactericide, insecticide, infanticide, tyrannicide, insecticides, bacteriacide, spermatocide 37? ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/10 "2000-10-28T01:27:14Z")
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**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/11 "2000-10-28T01:40:46Z")
You forgot incide. And, of course, on Sunday, there will be a case of Megacide in East Rutherford, New Jersey… ---
**Author:** ![Thrashbarg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Thrashbarg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thrashbarg)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder/38464/12 "2000-10-28T02:13:26Z")
Xenocide