The story
- Latin · derived from-cīda
- Ancient Greek · derived fromταινία
- English todaytaenicide
From Latin taenia (“band, ribbon”), from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía), + -cide (“killer”), from Latin -cīda.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekταινία all →
taeniataeniasistaeniformtaenifugetaeniodonttaenioidtaeniopterygidtainiolite-tene
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.