Fratricide
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Fratricide is the act of a person killing their brother. The word fratricide derives from the Latin word frater (meaning: "brother").
Compare with sororicide (the killing of one's sister), child murder (the killing of an unrelated child), infanticide (systematic killings of a large number of children), filicide (the killing of a child by one of their parents), and patricide (the killing of a parent by their child).
The word is also used in a military context to refer to friendly fire incidents.
Fratricides in literature
- Cain kills his brother Abel in the Book of Genesis.
- Medea killed her brother Apsyrtus (Greek myth)
- Michael Corleone (in The Godfather, Part II) has his brother Fredo shot.
- Romulus killed Remus, the twin brother who built the Roman Empire with him.Template:Crime-stub