-cide
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
In sense 2, from French -cide, from Latin -cida (“cutter, killer”), from -cid (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”) (used for form agent nouns). In sense 1 (now the primary sense), by extension from sense 2.
Suffix [edit]
-cide
- Used to make nouns meaning the killing of the person or thing indicated by the first component of the word. (This applies to all of the derived terms listed below.)
- Used to make nouns meaning a killer of the person or thing indicated by the first component of the word. (This applies to some, but not all, of the derived terms listed below.)
Derived terms [edit]
derived terms
Translations [edit]
killing of
killer of
