Regicide is a Latin lego word created at a time when people had long stopped speaking proper Latin. It combines "of the king" with "killer." It followed an established pattern like fratricide, killer of the brother. Note that we slightly perverted the Latin grammar over time by using these words to speak of the killing rather than the killer.
My Latin is shit. I'm not aware of a snappy expression that encompasses "Head of state or government" so we can add -cide to the end like all political scandals since Watergate get -gate at the end.
The name regicide has had millennia to develop, while I think it is likely that this novel method of obfuscating the succession crisis has not had similar time or cause for neologization.
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SorteKanin@feddit.dk · 22 pts · 210d
While the other answers are funny, the real answer nowadays is either "murder" or "assassination". There is not really a more specific word for it.
A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 210d
Justice
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 12 pts · 210d
Regicide is a Latin lego word created at a time when people had long stopped speaking proper Latin. It combines "of the king" with "killer." It followed an established pattern like fratricide, killer of the brother. Note that we slightly perverted the Latin grammar over time by using these words to speak of the killing rather than the killer.
My Latin is shit. I'm not aware of a snappy expression that encompasses "Head of state or government" so we can add -cide to the end like all political scandals since Watergate get -gate at the end.
udon@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 209d
Disenshittification
guillem@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 210d
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magnicide
HK65@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 210d
That's when you kill them with magnets /s
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 210d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 210d
Ok but what would it be called if someone killed Trump? MAGAcide? Since he is niether great or important in the bigger picture of the universe.
celeste@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 210d
Magnicide, maybe?
tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 210d
'lone gunman'
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 210d
Cathartic
j4k3@piefed.world · 4 pts · 210d
The name regicide has had millennia to develop, while I think it is likely that this novel method of obfuscating the succession crisis has not had similar time or cause for neologization.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 210d
JFK'ed
Just like every scandal is now a [X]-gate
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 210d
Relief.
Rhoeri@piefed.world · 2 pts · 210d
Depending on the subject, I think it would be called catharsis.