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-cide

killer; act of killing

Latin · -cida, -cidium (from caedere)

-cide root meaning picture

Latin -cida (killer) and -cidium (killing) come from caedere "to cut, kill". A substance that kills a pest ends in -cide: pesticide, herbicide. Killing of a kind of person or group does too: homicide, genocide.

Memory trick

CIDE sounds like "SIDE": a killer waiting on the SIDE of the field.

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