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Where does “suicid” come from?

suicid (Serbo-Croatian) comes from French suicide, from New Latin suicidium, from Latin -cīdium, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

Ancestry of “suicid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsuicidesuicide; inflection of suicider: ##...
2New Latinsuicidiumsuicide
3Latin-cīdium—
4Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
5Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
6Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
7Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

Words derived from “suicid”

  • suicidalno
  • suicidalnost
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yós →