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-cide

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-cide

▶combining form

1 denoting a person or substance that kills: insecticide.

2 denoting an act of killing: suicide.

– derivatives
-cidal combining form,
-cidally combining form.

– origin via Fr.; sense 1 from L. -cida; sense 2 from L. -cidium, both from caedere ‘kill’.

'-cide' also found in these Oxford entries:

acaricide - deicide - filicide - fratricide - genocide - matricide - regicide - uxoricide

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