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-cide

-cide

See also: cide

English

Suffix

-cide

  1. 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.)
  2. 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

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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:English_words_suffixed_with_-icide'>English words suffixed with -icide</a>
  • androcide, ceticide, cosmocide, cosmicide, culicide, famacide, gonocide, hosticide, malecide, mycocide, muscicide, parenticide, pulicicide, pulicide, tauricide, verspacide,

Translations

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /-saɪd/

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