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-cide

  1. a learned borrowing from Latin meaning “killer,” “act of killing,” used in the formation of compound words:

    pesticide, homicide.



-cide

combining form

  1. indicating a person or thing that kills

    insecticide

  2. indicating a killing; murder

    homicide



–cide

  1. A suffix that means “a killer of.” It is used to form the names of chemicals that kill a specified organism, such as pesticide, a chemical that kills pests.


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Derived Forms

  • -cidal, combining_form:in_adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of -cide1

late Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin -cīda “killer,” -cīdium “act of killing,” derivatives of caedere “to strike, beat, cut down, kill” (in compounds -cīdere )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of -cide1

from Latin -cīda (agent), -cīdium (act), from caedere to kill

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Example Sentences

Je devise a ma joefne fille Isabel Bardolf en cide de lui marier un hanap plat door.

Den when I 'cide to marry Bob Thomas, she he'p me fix a hope ches'.

He never did force any of us to go to church, if we didn't want to, dat was left to us to 'cide.

There was once a rich old man who was called the Bar-me-cide.

If you don't 'cide pretty quick, I'll put a big rock a-top o' you, an' stop fer you answer when I come back in de ebenin'.'

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