Where does “-cida” come from?

-cida (Catalan) comes from Latin -cīda, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

-cida (Catalan): cide denoting a person or substance that kills

Definitions

  1. cide denoting a person or substance that kills

Ancestry of “-cida”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-cīda
2Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
3Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
4Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

Words derived from “-cida

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from Latin -aEvery word from Latin -cīda