• MURDER

1. s. caedes (general term): homicidium (of any person): parricidium (of persons sacred and inviolable, as of parents, brothers or sisters, princes, etc.): The murder of anyone, caedes, occisio, caedes et occido alicujus, caedes qua aliquis occisus est (☞ interfectio alicujus is not classical): nex alicujus (violent death): scelus alicujus interfecti, mors per scelus alicui illata (crime committed on anyone): to commit murder, caedem, homicidium facere; parricidium committere; parricidio se obstringere: to commit a murder on anyone, caedem alicujus facere, efficere, or perpetrare; mortem per scelus alicui inferre; necem alicui inferre, offerre; alicui vim afferre (to offer violence to): aliquem interficere or occidere (to kill): to commit murder after murder, caedem caede accumulare (Lucr., 3, 71): to accuse of murder, aliquem caedis arguere: to acquit of murder, aliquem caedis absolvere.

2. v. interficere, occidere (to kill): necare aliquem, necem inferre alicui, vim alicui afferre (with violence): trucidare aliquem (to slaughter, like cattle): jugulare aliquem (to cut the throat, and so to kill): aliquem tollere de or e medio (general term, to remove). To seek to murder anyone, alicujus vitae insidiari; vitam alicujus ferro atque insidiis appetere; alicui interitum appetere.