The latin root meaning for cise is to cut
-cide can mean to kill and wrong/bad/evil
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...
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cide= to cut off ; to kill ex. to kill a dispute
Matricide, the murder of ones mother, comes from the Latin word mater, for mother.
'Cid' or 'Cide'.
'Cid' or 'Cide'.
Kill does not have a root word. Kill is just a simple word in the English language.
Suicide comes from two Latin words: sui which means "self" and cide which is a stem meaning "to kill". So the word literally means to kill oneself.
"-cide" meaning "kill"
The Prefix Cide Means - To Kill
Latin for student.