See papicide on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "papa-",
"3": "-icide"
},
"expansion": "papa- + -icide",
"name": "affix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From papa- + -icide.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "papicides",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "papacide",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "papicide (countable and uncountable, plural papicides)",
"name": "en-noun"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "uncommon"
},
"expansion": "(uncommon)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
221,
229
]
],
"ref": "1964, Carlo Falconi, translated by Muriel Grindrod, “Part I: The Build-up”, in Pope John and the Ecumenical Council: A Diary of the Second Vatican Council, September - December 1962, Cleveland, Oh.: World Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:",
"text": "The story, which would certainly have moved to tears the readers of Fr Bresciani’s feuilletons, smacked too much of invention and was too oozing with edification to be credible. If only there had been an actual attempted papicide with witnesses!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
175,
183
]
],
"ref": "2000, Alan Friedlander, chapter 9, in The Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Délicieux and the Struggle against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France, published 2021, →ISBN, page 287:",
"text": "If Bernard Bec, Peire de Castanet and Arnaud Garsie were, as it seems, telling the truth, it is possible that there occured^([sic]) at Perugia on 7 July 1304 indeed a case of papicide most foul.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The killing of a pope."
],
"id": "en-papicide-en-noun-QjPnzNzh",
"links": [
[
"killing",
"killing"
],
[
"pope",
"pope"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable and uncountable) The killing of a pope."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncommon",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with papa-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 77",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -icide",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 88",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 91",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
63,
71
]
],
"ref": "1982, Polish Perspectives, volume XXV, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Wspólczesne RSW Prasa-Książka-Ruch, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:",
"text": "The ineffable self-satisfaction displayed by the young Turkish papicide during his interrogation and trial was not unreasonable.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
41,
49
]
],
"ref": "1985, Fanfare, volume 8, Tenafly, N.J.: Fanfare, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 222:",
"text": "Ilmari? First name of a would-be Turkish papicide? A Libyan omnicide? No, merely that of an apparently mild-mannered Finn whose studies put him at the crossroads of the major influences so patently reflected in his music—those of Rachmaninoff and of the French Impressionists.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
273,
282
]
],
"ref": "1993, Alain Arias-Misson, “Foul Play”, in The Mind Crime of August Saint: A Novel, Boulder, Colo.: Fiction Collective Two, →ISBN, page 240:",
"text": "“Do you remember the curiously sudden death of John Paul I, Monsieur le Baron?” August spoke loudly. The Grand Master started, then interjected, “This young man must have his little joke,” he said as if to excuse his young friend. “His is a delicious tongue, but really of papicides, my family has none.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who kills (or attempts to kill) a pope."
],
"id": "en-papicide-en-noun--cpFR-09",
"links": [
[
"kill",
"kill"
],
[
"pope",
"pope"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) One who kills (or attempts to kill) a pope."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncommon"
]
}
],
"word": "papicide"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with papa-",
"English terms suffixed with -icide",
"English uncommon terms",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "papa-",
"3": "-icide"
},
"expansion": "papa- + -icide",
"name": "affix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From papa- + -icide.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "papicides",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "papacide",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "papicide (countable and uncountable, plural papicides)",
"name": "en-noun"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "uncommon"
},
"expansion": "(uncommon)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
221,
229
]
],
"ref": "1964, Carlo Falconi, translated by Muriel Grindrod, “Part I: The Build-up”, in Pope John and the Ecumenical Council: A Diary of the Second Vatican Council, September - December 1962, Cleveland, Oh.: World Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:",
"text": "The story, which would certainly have moved to tears the readers of Fr Bresciani’s feuilletons, smacked too much of invention and was too oozing with edification to be credible. If only there had been an actual attempted papicide with witnesses!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
175,
183
]
],
"ref": "2000, Alan Friedlander, chapter 9, in The Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Délicieux and the Struggle against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France, published 2021, →ISBN, page 287:",
"text": "If Bernard Bec, Peire de Castanet and Arnaud Garsie were, as it seems, telling the truth, it is possible that there occured^([sic]) at Perugia on 7 July 1304 indeed a case of papicide most foul.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The killing of a pope."
],
"links": [
[
"killing",
"killing"
],
[
"pope",
"pope"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable and uncountable) The killing of a pope."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncommon",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
63,
71
]
],
"ref": "1982, Polish Perspectives, volume XXV, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Wspólczesne RSW Prasa-Książka-Ruch, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:",
"text": "The ineffable self-satisfaction displayed by the young Turkish papicide during his interrogation and trial was not unreasonable.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
41,
49
]
],
"ref": "1985, Fanfare, volume 8, Tenafly, N.J.: Fanfare, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 222:",
"text": "Ilmari? First name of a would-be Turkish papicide? A Libyan omnicide? No, merely that of an apparently mild-mannered Finn whose studies put him at the crossroads of the major influences so patently reflected in his music—those of Rachmaninoff and of the French Impressionists.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
273,
282
]
],
"ref": "1993, Alain Arias-Misson, “Foul Play”, in The Mind Crime of August Saint: A Novel, Boulder, Colo.: Fiction Collective Two, →ISBN, page 240:",
"text": "“Do you remember the curiously sudden death of John Paul I, Monsieur le Baron?” August spoke loudly. The Grand Master started, then interjected, “This young man must have his little joke,” he said as if to excuse his young friend. “His is a delicious tongue, but really of papicides, my family has none.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who kills (or attempts to kill) a pope."
],
"links": [
[
"kill",
"kill"
],
[
"pope",
"pope"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) One who kills (or attempts to kill) a pope."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncommon"
]
}
],
"word": "papicide"
}
Download raw JSONL data for papicide meaning in All languages combined (3.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (c3cc510 and 1d3fdbf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.