deicide
/ˈdi.ə.saɪd/noun
deicide is a noun meaning “The killing of a deity; godslaughter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-I-C-I-D-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of deicide is deicides.
What does deicide mean?
noun
- 1
The killing of a deity; godslaughter.
- 2
The killer of a deity.
- 3
The crucifixion of Jesus, viewed as a crime.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce deicide?
- UK /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.saɪd/
- UK /ˈdiː.ɪ.saɪd/
- US /ˈdi.ə.saɪd/
Deicide has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-deicide.ogg, En-us-deicide-2.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of deicide
- deicides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is deicide?
Deicide appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Deicide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does deicide come from?
Merged from Medieval Latin deicīdium and Medieval Latin deicīda.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).