Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 16 hours agoIf a person assassinates a king or queen its called Regicide. What is the killing of a leader/president/head of state etc? Why is it called that way?message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down14
arrow-up119arrow-down1message-squareIf a person assassinates a king or queen its called Regicide. What is the killing of a leader/president/head of state etc? Why is it called that way?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 16 hours agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-square√𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 hours agoThe 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.
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.