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Fratricide (from Latin fratricidium; from frater 'brother' and -cīdium 'killing' – the assimilated root of caedere 'to kill, cut down') is the act of killing one's own brother.
It can either be done directly or via the use of either a hired or an indoctrinated intermediary (an assassin). The victim need not be the perpetrator's biological brother. In a military context, fratricide refers to a service member killing a comrade.
The term is often used metaphorically to refer to civil wars.[2][3]
- ^ "Genesis 4:48". 21st Century King James Version. Retrieved 2009-04-07 – via BibleGateway.
- ^ Murrell Taylor, Amy (2009). The Divided Family in Civil War America. University of Carolina Press. p. 71.
- ^ McNelis, Charles (2007). Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War. Cambridge University Press. p. 4.