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词根词缀:-cide, -cides, -cidal

【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; kill, killer; murder, to cause death, slayer; cutter; “to cut down”

【相关描述】Don’t confuse this element with the another -cide that means “to cut”; although -cide, “death”, is related to -cise, -cide, “to cut down”.

【相关词根词缀】 Related "death, dead; kill" units: lethal-; mort-; neci-; necro-; phono-; thanato-.

【同源单词】aborticide, acaricide, adulticide, algaecide, algicide, algiocide

词根词缀:vati-

【来源及含义】from Latin vates, seer, prophet; sooth-sayer; prophesy, prophecy; which should not be confused with Vatican, "Pope's palace in Rome" or Vaticanism, "doctrine of papal supremacy and infallibility"

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "divination, diviner; seer, soothsayer, prophecy, prophesy, prophet": augur-; auspic-; fa-, fate; Fates in action; futur-; -mancy; omen; -phemia; sorc-, sorcery.

【同源单词】vatic, vatical, vaticide, vaticinal, vaticinate, vaticination