O imenicama koje završavaju sufiksoidom -cid
On nouns with the suffixoid -cid

croatian

2025

volume 73, issue 4

adaptation   Bosnian language   Croatian language   hybrids   lexicology   loanwords   Serbian language   terminological lexicon   word origin

Slavistično društvo Slovenije
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

In the Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian language standards, there are words ending with the suffixoid -cid, which is actually an allomorph of the root -cid from the Latin verbs caedo, 3., cecidi, caesum, meaning “to cut”, “to chop”, “to strike”, “to whip” and occido, 3., occisi, occisum, meaning “to kill”. In previous linguistic research, there was no particular interest in analyzing this suffixoid, while in Slavic languages there is no unique native suffix to denote killing or destruction, which is why the process of borrowing terminological lexicon began. The aim of this study is: 1. to identify words ending with the suffixoid -cid in dictionaries of the three standards; 2. to define the meanings of those words ending with -cid that are not part of the existing dictionary stock; 3. to determine their frequency in electronic corpora on the CLARIN platform. Keywords: loanwords, adaptation, word origin, hybrids, terminological lexicon

19.02.2026