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homicidal

/ˌhɒməˈsaɪdəl/hah-muh-SIGH-duhl
/ˌhɑməˈsaɪdəl/hah-muh-SIGH-duhl

Meaningrelating to homicide

Common meaning: likely to kill

Journey through time

  1. Latinhomicidium‘killing a person’source
  2. Frenchhomicidesource
  3. Englishhomicide‘killing of one person by another’
  4. Englishformed in English from homicidehomicidal‘likely to kill’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from homicide + -al.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), HOMICIDH, p.270 · scan

Source words

  • homicidium Latin · source word “killing a person”

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