Where does “matricid” come from?

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

matricid (Romanian): matricide

Definitions

  1. matricide

Ancestry of “matricid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmatricidematricide crime
2LatinmātricīdaA person who kills his own mother, matricide
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 →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Latin -cīda →