Where does “lapicid” come from?

lapicid (Romanian) comes from French lapicide, from Latin lapicida, from Latin -cīda, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

lapicid (Romanian): lapicide

Definitions

  1. lapicide

Ancestry of “lapicid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchlapicidelapicide
2Latinlapicidaa quarryman, stone-cutter
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—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →