Where does “pubicide” come from?

pubicide (English) comes from English pubic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.

pubicide (English): Any of the various chemicals used to kill pubic lice

Definitions

  1. Any of the various chemicals used to kill pubic lice

Ancestry of “pubicide”, step by step

pubicide traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English pubic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpubicOf, or relating to the area of the body adjacent...
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-un-, non-, not
11Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English cide

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishcide
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en