Where does “matricide” come from?

matricide (English) comes from French matricide, from Latin mātricīda, from Latin -cīda, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

matricide (English): The killing of one's mother; A person who kills...

Definitions

  1. The killing of one's mother; A person who kills...

Ancestry of “matricide”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmatricidematricide crime
2LatinmātricīdaA person who kills his own mother, matricide
3Latin-cīda—
4Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
5Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
6Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “matricide”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Latin -cīda →