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Where does “tyrannicide” come from?

tyrannicide (French) comes from Middle French tyrannicide, from Latin tyrannicida, from Latin -cīda, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

tyrannicide (French): tyrannicide; a person who performs tyrannicide

Definitions

  1. tyrannicide; a person who performs tyrannicide

Ancestry of “tyrannicide”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchtyrannicide—
2Latintyrannicidaone who kills a tyrant, an assassin
3Latin-cīda—
4Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
5Proto-Italic-ā—
6Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “tyrannicide”

  • tyrannicide
  • tyrannicidal
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →