homicide
Other forms: homicides
The noun homicide means a murder. If you kill another person, you are committing a homicide. The level of the homicide is legally defined as murder if the act was intentional and as manslaughter if it was unintentional.
Remember the meaning of homicide by remembering that cide, from the Latin cida, refers to killing, while the Latin homo means "man.” So homicide means “killing a man.” You can see another example in this quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide — that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life — are alike forbidden.”
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the killing of a human being by another human beingtypes:honor killingan ancient tradition still sometimes observed; a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family imagemanslaughterhomicide without malice aforethoughtshootingkilling someone by gunfiredrive-by killinghomicide committed by shooting from a moving automobileassassinationmurder of a public figure by surprise attackchance-medleyan unpremeditated killing of a human being in self defensecontract killinga murder carried out on agreement with a hired killerparricidethe murder of your own father or mothermariticidethe murder of a husband by his wifefratricidethe murder of your siblinguxoricidethe murder of a wife by her husbandfilicidethe murder of your own son or daughterlynchingputting a person to death by mob action without due process of lawregicidethe act of killing a kingdrive-by shootingshooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victimwing shootingshooting game birds that are flying (on the wing)dry-gulchingthe act of killing from ambushhita murder carried out by an underworld syndicateinfanticidemurdering an infantshoot-downmurder by shooting someone down in cold bloodtyrannicidekilling a tyrantthuggeemurder and robbery by thugstype of:
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Vocabulary lists containing homicide
In the first book of the Hazelwood High trilogy, basketball player Andy Jackson deals with the aftermath of the car accident that killed his best friend.
Falling under this category of words that derive from the Latin root "cadere," meaning "to fall," are some surprises: "incident," "accident," and all of those "-cide" words having to do with killing. More Latin Love, Volume II lists: fluere, iacere, onym, and vertere! ELA Common Core State Standard: "Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word."
Investigate these words from Agatha Christie's masterpiece to figure out why it's the world's best-selling mystery novel.