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.
cide= to cut off ; to kill ex. to kill a dispute
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...
Kill does not have a root word. Kill is just a simple word in the English language.
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."
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-cide can mean to kill and wrong/bad/evil
The latin root meaning for cise is to cut
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.
Pesticide is made up of two words 'pest and -cide'. The word pest refers to an annoying or troublesome thing. The suffice -cide is borrowed from Latin meaning 'killer' and is used in compound words, such as pesticide and homicide
The word homicide comes from the 14th century. It originates from Middle English, from Old French, from the Latin word homicidium, from the word homo, and homin- meaning 'man.' The word "homicide" , meaning a killing of one human by another, originates in Latin and Old French learning, taking "homo" to mean man, and "cide" to mean the act of killing.
The Prefix Cide Means - To Kill
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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...
Kill
Kill does not have a root word. Kill is just a simple word in the English language.