-cidal
a combination of -cide and -al1. found on adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -cide:
homicidal.
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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.
- -clase
a combining form used in the formation of compound words that denote minerals with a particular cleavage, as specified by the initial element: oligoclase; plagioclase. -clase combining form (in mineralogy) indicating a particular type of cleavage plagioclase word origin via french from greek klasis a breaking, from klan to break
- -clasis
a combining form meaning “a breaking,” used in the formation of compound words: thromboclasis.
- -cle
a suffix found in french loanwords of latin origin, originally diminutive nouns, and later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from latin or in neo-latin coinages: article; conventicle; corpuscle; particle. -cle2 a suffix found in french loanwords of latin origin, later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from latin; in latin, this suffix formed from […]