From: Stephen Hodge Message: 11459 Date: 2007-07-11
Gunnar Gällmo wrote:
> so parricide must mean killing ones father ...
Sorry to be pedantic, but patricide is the killing of one's father.
Parricide is the killing of either of one's parents or other close
relatives. Hence all patricides are parricides, but not all parricides are
patricides.
Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge
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