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1. José Alb. / Speedy (josealberto4444@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 21-Aug-2022 18:30:32 JST José Alb. / Speedy

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   • Sylvia van Os

   @SylvieLorxu The part before -cide denotes the species killed. Homi- stands for human, in this case, as well as the insecticide is for killing insects, for example. In Spanish we follow that rule for making more words: "raticida" for rat poison, etc. =)

   Suicide comes from Latin, where sui means himself/herself. However, auto- comes from Greek and it means that you do the action, but not necessarily that the action is done on you.

   I hope I have explained it well. =P

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   • Sylvia van Os (sylvielorxu@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Aug-2022 18:30:39 JST Sylvia van Os

     I'm actually wondering... if killing your own species (human as human) is homocide, does that mean killing another species is heterocide? Somehow I can't find the word heterocide in the dictionary.

     And why is it suicide, not autocide? Is that a Latin vs. Greek thing?