List of types of killing

In the English language, terms for types of killing often end in the suffix -cide.

Killing of self

  • Suicide – intentional killing of self.
    • Autocide – suicide by automobile.
    • Medicide – a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician.
    • Murder-suicide – a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders.
    • Self-immolation – suicide as a form of protest, often by fire
    • Suicide by cop – acting in a threatening manner so as to provoke a lethal response from law enforcement.

Killing of other people

All of these are considered types of homicide.

Killing of family

  • Avunculicide - the act of killing an uncle. (Avunculus being Latin for uncle, specifically a maternal uncle)
  • Familicide – is a multiple-victim homicide where a killer's spouse and children are slain.(Familia being Latin for family)
  • Filicide – the act of a parent killing his or her son or daughter. (Filius being Latin for son)
  • Fratricide – the act of killing a brother, also in military context death by friendly fire. (Frater being Latin for brother)
  • Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, commit suicide or be killed. See also Senicide.
  • Honour killing – the act of killing a family member who has or was perceived to have brought disgrace to the family.
  • Infanticide – the act of killing a child within the first year of its life.
  • Mariticide – the act of killing one's husband.
  • Matricide – the act of killing one's mother. (Mater being Latin for mother)
  • Neonaticide – the act of killing an infant within the first twenty-four hours or month (varies by individual and jurisdiction) of its life.
  • Nepoticide – the act of killing one's nephew
  • Parricide – (also parenticide) the killing of one's mother or father or other close relative.
  • Patricide – the act of killing of one's father. (Pater being Latin for father)
  • Prolicide – the act of killing one's own children.
  • Senicide – the killing of one's elderly family members when they can no longer work or become a burden. (Senex being Latin for old man)
  • Siblicide – the killing of an infant individual by its close relatives (full or half siblings)
  • Sororicide – the act of killing one's sister.(Soror being Latin for sister)
  • Uxoricide – the act of killing one's wife (Uxor being Latin for wife)

Killing of others

  • Amicicide – the act of killing a friend. ("Amicus" being Latin for friend)
  • Androcide – the systematic killing of men.
  • Capital punishment – the judicial killing of a human being for crimes.
  • Casualty (person) – death (or injury) in wartime.
  • Collateral damage – Deaths during wartime due to imprecise or incorrect targeting or friendly fire
  • Democide – the murder of any person or people by a government.
  • Ecocide – the destruction of the natural environment by such activity as war, overexploitation of resources, or pollution.
  • Extrajudicial killing – killing by government forces without due process
  • Euthanasia (also known as "mercy killing") – the killing of any being for compassionate reasons, e.g., significant injury or disease.
  • Familiaricide in commutatione eius possessio – the act of killing a family for their property and/or possessions (From "familiaris" being Latin for of a household,"in commutatione eius" being Latin for in exchange for, and "possessio" being Latin for a possession or property)
  • Femicide (also gynecide, gynaecide, or gynocide) – the systematic killing of women.
  • Feticide – the act of killing a fetus.
  • Gendercide – the systematic killing of members of a specific sex or gender.
  • Genocide – the systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
  • Homicide – the act of killing of a person. ("Homo" being Latin for man)
  • Justifiable homicide
  • Human sacrifice – the killing of a human for sacrificial, often religious, reasons.
  • Massacre or mass murder – the killing of many people.
  • Murder – the malicious and unlawful killing of a human by another human.
  • Manslaughter – murder, but under legally mitigating circumstances.
  • Omnicide – the act of killing all humans, to create intentional extinction of the human species. ("Omni" meaning all)
  • Populicide – see Democide above.
  • Xenocide – The genocide of an entire alien species. Often used in science fiction, one famous example being the novel "Xenocide" by Orson Scott Card.

Killing of superiors

Giganticide: David hoists the severed head of Goliath.
  • Deicide – the act of killing a god or divine being
  • Dominicide – the act of killing one's master. (Latin: dominus means "master")
  • Episcopicide – the act of killing a bishop.[1]
  • Giganticide – the act of killing a giant.
  • Regicide – the act of killing a king (Latin: rex, Gen. regis means "king")
  • Tyrannicide – the act of killing a tyrant.
  • Vaticide – the act of killing a prophet.

Killing of intangibles

  • Famacide – the killing of another's reputation, a slander.
  • Liberticide – the destruction of liberties.
  • Urbicide – the destruction of a city or the stifling of an urbanisation. ("Urbs" being Latin for city)
  • Linguicide – intentionally causing the death of a language

Killing of animals, disease, and pests

  • Algaecide – a chemical agent that kills algae
  • Acaricide – a chemical agent that kills mites.
  • Avicide – a chemical agent that kills birds
  • Bactericide – a chemical agent that kills bacteria.
  • Biocide – a chemical agent that kills a broad spectrum of living organisms.
  • Canicide – the killing of dogs. (Canis being Latin for dog)
  • Cervicide – the killing of deer.
  • Ceticide – the killing of whales.
  • Culicide – a chemical agent that kills mosquitos.
  • Felicide – the killing of cats
  • Gallicide - the killing of chickens
  • Fungicide – chemical agents or biological organisms used to kill or inhibit fungi or fungal spores.
  • Germicide – an agent that kills germs, especially pathogenic microorganisms; a disinfectant
  • Gonocide (also gonococcicide) – an agent that kills the bacterium causing gonorrhea
  • Herbicide – an agent that kills unwanted plants, a weed killer.
  • Insecticide – an agent that kills unwanted insects.
  • Larvicide (also larvacide) – an insecticide targeted against the larval life stage of an insect.
  • Lupicide – The killing of wolves.
  • Microbicide – an agent used to kill or reduce the infectiousness of microorganisms.
  • Miticide – {a chemical to kill mites.
  • Muscicide – an agent that kills flies.
  • Nemacide (also nematicide, nematocide) – a chemical to eradicate or kill nematodes.
  • Ovacide – an agent that kills eggs of an organism particular a pest i.e. lice eggs.
  • Parasiticide – a general term to describe an agent used to destroy parasites.
  • Pediculicide – an agent that kills head lice.
  • Pesticide – a general term to describe an agent used to destroy or repel a pest.
  • Pulicicide (also pulicide) – an agent that kills fleas.
  • Raticide – an agent for killing rats.
  • Scabicide – a chemical agent for killing scabies.
  • Spermicide – a contraceptive agent to render sperm inert and prevent fertilization.
  • Tauricide – the killing of bulls or steers.
  • Teniacide (also taeniacide, tenicide)– a chemical agent that kills tape worms.
  • Vermicide – an agent used to kill parasitic intestinal worms.
  • Vespacide – a chemical agent that kills wasps.
  • Virucide (also viricide) – an agent capable of destroying or inhibiting viruses.
  • Vulpicide (also vulpecide)- the killing of a fox by methods other than by hunting it with hounds.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Webster's 1913.
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