What “Fratricide" Actually Means: murder of one’s sibling
What “Fratricide” Sounds Like It Should Mean: “Oh my god, they killed Chad!”
uhhh thats bc fraternity literally means brotherhood
It’s a denotation-versus-connotation thing. “Brotherhood” and “frat” may denotatively mean the same thing, but they have very different connotations in colloquial English.
(Or, at least, they do in most idioms. If that connotative distance doesn’t exist in your local dialect, I’d be extremely curious to know what mental image the phrase ”Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood“ inspires for you.)
I’ve had someone explain to me the difference between “frat bros” and “Fraternity gentleman”. He worked for a fraternity. It was interesting.