Killing of family
- Avunculicide - the act of killing an uncle. (Avunculus being Latin for uncle, specifically a maternal uncle)
- Familicide – is a multiple-victim homicide where a killer's spouse and children are slain.(Familia being Latin for family)
- Filicide – the act of a parent killing his or her son or daughter. (Filius being Latin for son)
- Fratricide – the act of killing a brother, also in military context death by friendly fire. (Frater being Latin for brother)
- Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, commit suicide or be killed. See also Senicide.
- Honour killing – the act of killing a family member who has or was perceived to have brought disgrace to the family.
- Infanticide – the act of killing a child within the first year of its life.
- Mariticide – the act of killing one's husband.
- Matricide – the act of killing one's mother. (Mater being Latin for mother)
- Neonaticide – the act of killing an infant within the first twenty-four hours or month (varies by individual and jurisdiction) of its life.
- Nepoticide – the act of killing one's nephew
- Parricide – (also parenticide) the killing of one's mother or father or other close relative.
- Patricide – the act of killing of one's father. (Pater being Latin for father)
- Prolicide – the act of killing one's own children.
- Senicide – the killing of one's elderly family members when they can no longer work or become a burden. (Senex being Latin for old man)
- Siblicide – the killing of an infant individual by its close relatives (full or half siblings)
- Sororicide – the act of killing one's sister.(Soror being Latin for sister)
- Uxoricide – the act of killing one's wife (Uxor being Latin for wife)
Killing of others
- Amicicide – the act of killing a friend. ("Amicus" being Latin for friend)
- Androcide – the systematic killing of men.
- Capital punishment – the judicial killing of a human being for crimes.
- Casualty (person) – death (or injury) in wartime.
- Collateral damage – Deaths during wartime due to imprecise or incorrect targeting or friendly fire
- Democide – the murder of any person or people by a government.
- Ecocide – the destruction of the natural environment by such activity as war, overexploitation of resources, or pollution.
- Extrajudicial killing – killing by government forces without due process
- Euthanasia (also known as "mercy killing") – the killing of any being for compassionate reasons, e.g., significant injury or disease.
- Familiaricide in commutatione eius possessio – the act of killing a family for their property and/or possessions (From "familiaris" being Latin for of a household,"in commutatione eius" being Latin for in exchange for, and "possessio" being Latin for a possession or property)
- Femicide (also gynecide, gynaecide, or gynocide) – the systematic killing of women.
- Feticide – the act of killing a fetus.
- Gendercide – the systematic killing of members of a specific sex or gender.
- Genocide – the systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
- Homicide – the act of killing of a person. ("Homo" being Latin for man)
- Justifiable homicide
- Human sacrifice – the killing of a human for sacrificial, often religious, reasons.
- Massacre or mass murder – the killing of many people.
- Murder – the malicious and unlawful killing of a human by another human.
- Manslaughter – murder, but under legally mitigating circumstances.
- Omnicide – the act of killing all humans, to create intentional extinction of the human species. ("Omni" meaning all)
- Populicide – see Democide above.
- Xenocide – The genocide of an entire alien species. Often used in science fiction, one famous example being the novel "Xenocide" by Orson Scott Card.
Killing of superiors
- Deicide – the act of killing a god or divine being
- Dominicide – the act of killing one's master. (Latin: dominus means "master")
- Episcopicide – the act of killing a bishop.[1]
- Giganticide – the act of killing a giant.
- Regicide – the act of killing a king (Latin: rex, Gen. regis means "king")
- Tyrannicide – the act of killing a tyrant.
- Vaticide – the act of killing a prophet
