suicide, pesticide,genocide, patricide, patricide, matricide, fratricide, uxoricide etc.
cide= to cut off ; to kill ex. to kill a dispute
Kill does not have a root word. Kill is just a simple word in the English language.
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...
Root word is usual.
'Cid' or 'Cide'.
"-cide" meaning "kill"
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.
Kill does not have a root word. Kill is just a simple word in the English language.
-cide can mean to kill and wrong/bad/evil
'Cid' or 'Cide'.
The latin root meaning for cise is to cut
The root word "sui" typically means "self" or "of oneself." For example, "suicide" combines "sui" (self) and "-cide" (kill) to mean "self-killing."
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.
Yes the word "suicde, is of latin origin. The first part "sui " means of oneself and "cide" means kill or death, sosuicide is to kill or death to oneself.
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