Where does “trucidate” come from?
trucidate (Latin) comes from Latin trucido, from Latin caedo, from Proto-Italic kaidō, from Proto-Indo-European keh₂id-.
trucidate (Latin): second-person plural present active imperative of...
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- second-person plural present active imperative of...
Ancestry of “trucidate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | trucido | I slaughter, massacre, cut to pieces, kill in a... |
| 2 | Latin | caedo | I cut, hew, fell; I strike, beat; I kill, I... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | kaidō | to cut, to hew, to fell |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂id- | — |