-cide
Means "to kill"
A suffix meaning killing or killer.
The killing sense appears in words like suicide (killing oneself), homicide (killing a person), genocide (killing a people), and pesticide (a substance that kills pests).
The killer sense appears in words like regicide (one who kills a king) and fungicide (something that kills fungi).
From Latin *caedere*, to cut down or kill.
Murdering one's own child
- sororicideMurdering one's own sister
- parricideSlaying one's own parent
- familicideSlaying one's family members
Substance destroying aquatic growth
filicide
Murdering one's own child
- sororicideMurdering one's own sister
- parricideSlaying one's own parent
- familicideSlaying one's family members
algaecide
Substance destroying aquatic growth
ethnocide
Deliberate identity erasure
-cidebirth
Coming into the world
creation · nativity · procreation · conception · generation
-cidepreservation
Maintaining something's condition
salvation · rescue · protection · conservation · safeguarding
-cidecultivation
Fostering growth through care
nurture · growth · flourishing · fostering · rearing
suicide, homicide, genocide, patricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, regicide, insecticide