Where does “lapicide” come from?

lapicide (English) comes from Latin lapicida, from Latin -cīda, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

lapicide (English): A stonecutter

Definitions

  1. A stonecutter

Ancestry of “lapicide”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlapicidaa quarryman, stone-cutter
2Latin-cīda—
3Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
4Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →