Dictionary

fratricidal en · ADJ

Etymology

From fratricide + -al.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to fratricide.
   • At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, which commemorates the president who urged a fratricidal nation to go forward “with malice toward none, with charity toward all,” the Olipa family debated what’s happened to leadership in America. 2023 March 31, Christa Case Bryant, Henry Gass, Story Hinckley, Sophie Hills, “Sobering moment: Americans reflect on Trump indictment”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
   • Taizong's failure fooled no one. Indeed, one of Taizong's own sons may well have been unhinged by his father's obvious fratricidal and nepoticidal actions. These personal considerations directly affected Taizong's policy decisions, and thus warrant some discussion. 2008, Peter Lorge, “The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao Border”, in Don J. Wyatt, editor, Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 59–74 at 67:

Forms

Deriveds

fratricidally

Translations (16)

pl bratobójczy (of or pertaining to fratricide) · fr fratricide (of or pertaining to fratricide) · sh братоу̀билачкӣ (of or pertaining to fratricide) · uk братовби́вчий (of or pertaining to fratricide) · gv braar-marrooagh (of or pertaining to fratricide) · pt fratricida (of or pertaining to fratricide) · ru братоуби́йственный (of or pertaining to fratricide) · gl fratricida (of or pertaining to fratricide) · ka ძმათამკვლელი (of or pertaining to fratricide) · bg братоуби́йствен (of or pertaining to fratricide) · be братазгу́бны (of or pertaining to fratricide) · sh bratoùbilačkī (of or pertaining to fratricide) · el αδελφοκτόνος (of or pertaining to fratricide) · be братазабо́йчы (of or pertaining to fratricide) · hy եղբայրասպան (of or pertaining to fratricide) · es fratricida (of or pertaining to fratricide)