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-chroic

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• -chrome

  variant of chrom- as the final element of a compound word: polychrome. -chrome combining form, combining form colour, coloured, or pigment monochrome word origin from greek khrōma colour

• -chroous

  a combining form meaning “having a color” of the kind specified by the initial element: isochroous. also, -chroic. -chroous combining form coloured in a specified way isochroous word origin from greek khrōs skin, complexion, colour

• -cidal

  a combination of -cide and -al1. found on adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -cide: homicidal.

• -cide

  a learned borrowing from latin meaning “killer,” “act of killing,” used in the formation of compound words: pesticide, homicide. -cide combining form indicating a person or thing that kills insecticide indicating a killing; murder homicide derived forms -cidal, combining_form:in_adjective word origin from latin -cīda (agent), -cīdium (act), from caedere to kill -cide “killer,” from fr. […]

• -cion

  variant of -tion: suspicion.

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