Where does “matricide” come from?

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

matricide (French): matricide crime

Definitions

  1. matricide crime

Ancestry of “matricide”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinmātricīdaA person who kills his own mother, matricide
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—

Words derived from “matricide”

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