Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Parricide

Parricide , noun

[French, from Latin parricida; pater father + caedere to kill. See Father, Homicide, and compare Patricide.]

1.
Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.
2.
The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.