the crime of killing your father, mother or a close relative; a person who is guilty of this crime compare fratricide, matricide, patricide, uxoricide殺父(或母、近親)罪;殺父(或母、近親)者 Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, from Latin parricidium ‘murder of a parent’, with first element of unknown origin, but for long associated with Latin pater ‘father’ and parens ‘parent’.