Definition of "-cide" []

• Killer: bactericide. (suffix)
• Act of killing: ecocide. (suffix)

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• "The -cide in insecticide is the same as the -cidio in insecticidio."
• "In La Tremenda Corte, the permanently guilty character of Tres Patines was always brought to trial on charges of some kind of -cidio or -cide."