Word Meanings - PATRICIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
PATRICIDE
1. The murderer of his father. 2. The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.
PARRICIDAL
Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach