Where does “fungicide” come from?

Fungicide comes from English -cide, from French -cide, from Latin -cida meaning killer, from Latin -a, from Proto-Indo-European kh₂eyd- and keh₂id-.

fungicide (English): A substance used to kill fungus

Definitions

  1. A substance used to kill fungus

Ancestry of “fungicide”, step by step

fungicide traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English fungi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishfungiplural of fungus; Spongy, abnormal growth, as...
2Latinfungī—

via English cide

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishcide—

Words derived from “fungicide”

Every word from Latin fungī →Every word from English fungi →