From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Regicide \Reg"i*cide\ (r[e^]j"[i^]*s[imac]d), noun [F. r['e]gicide; L. rex, regis, a king + caedere to kill. Cf. {Homicide}.]
1. One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng. Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.
2. The killing or the murder of a king.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "regicide": aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide, uxoricide, vermicide
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