-zid
The suffix -zid denotes an act of killing. Examples are:
- Self-killing
- Suicide , earlier often called suicide, sometimes also called euphemistically suicide
- Homicide suicide: Suicide after killing another person before or at the same time
- Stranger killing by humans
- Androzid : killing a man because of the quality of being a man
- Deicide : murder of god
- Democide : deliberate mass killings of certain groups of people by a government
- Ethnocide : cultural genocide
- Femicide : killing a woman for the quality of being a woman
- Fetocide : the killing and removal of one or more fetuses from the womb
- Filicide : killing children over the age of one year
- Fratrizid : fratricide
- Genderzide : systematic and massive killing of members of a specific gender
- Genocide : genocide
- Homicide : killing another person
- Homicide suicide: Suicide after killing another person before or at the same time
- Homocide : either the murder of people or even the annihilation of all humanity
- Infanticide: infanticide
- Neonaticide : killing a newborn baby
- Matrizid : killing of a mother by her son or daughter
- Ecocide : Genocide through the ecological destruction of the natural basis of life
- Parenticide : killing one's own parents
- Patricide : killing of one's own father by the son or daughter
- Regicide : regicide
- Sororicide : sister murder
- Tyrannicide : tyrannicide
- Xenocide : Extinction of an Otherworldly Species
- Foreign killing by animals
- Infanticide (zoology) : killing offspring of one's own species
The suffix -zid denotes agents / chemicals used to kill, inhibit or displace. Examples are:
- Acaricide : against mites
- Algicide : against algae
- Arboricidal : against woody plants
- Avicide : against birds
- Bactericidal : against bacteria
- Biocide : Chemicals or microorganisms used to control pests
- Endectocide : Antiparasitic
- Fungicide : against fungi
- Gametocide : against the formation of the male flower parts (anthers, pollen) in ears
- Graminicide : against grasses
- Herbicide : against plants
- Insecticide : pesticide used to kill, drive away or inhibit insects and their stages of development
- Larvicide : against larvae of insects or mites
- Microbicide : protection against germs
- Microbiocide : protection against germs
- Molluscicide : against snails
- Nematicide : against roundworms (nematodes)
- Ovicide : against (insect) eggs
- Pediculocide : against human lice
- Pesticide : Chemicals and microorganisms that can be used to kill, drive away or inhibit germination, growth or reproduction of living things that are considered nuisance or harmful
- Piscizid : against fish
- Rodenticide : against rodents
- Spermicide : against sperm
- Sporicidal : against spores
- Virucidal : against viruses
See also:
- Linguicide : language murder
