The Latin root "-cide" comes from the word caedere, which means "to kill." There are many examples of it used in English words:
Homicide - killing a person
Suicide - killing oneself
Patricide - killing one's father
Matricide - killing one's mother
Fratricide - killing one's brother
Sororicide - killing one's sister
Regicide - killing a king
Infanticide - killing a baby
Genocide - killing an entire group or race of people
Pesticide - killing pests (insects, rodents, weeds, other unwanted organisms)
Herbicide - killing plants (weeds)
Insecticide - killing insects
Fungicide - killing fungus
These are just some of the more common examples. You can find many more online or in a dictionary.
The latin root meaning for cise is to cut
'Cid' or 'Cide'.
-cide can mean to kill and wrong/bad/evil
'Cid' or 'Cide'.
"-cide" meaning "kill"
The Prefix Cide Means - To Kill
Kill
suicide, pesticide,genocide, patricide, patricide, matricide, fratricide, uxoricide etc.
The root word "sui" typically means "self" or "of oneself." For example, "suicide" combines "sui" (self) and "-cide" (kill) to mean "self-killing."
From the perfect stem of the Latin verb cado, die: cecid-Answer 2: I think it might actually come from the Latin caedo, meaning "to cut down, kill"; 'ae' to 'i' is a fairly common linguistic change in Latin roots. Though I'm pretty sure they're related...
cide= to cut off ; to kill ex. to kill a dispute
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