English
anophelicide
From anopheles + -cide.
Formed from anopheles + -cide
Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰel-
Proto-Hellenic *opʰelos
Ancient Greek ὄφελος ‘advantage, benefit, good’
Ancient Greek ἀνωφελής ‘unprofitable, useless’
Taxonomic Latin Anopheles ‘genus of mosquitoes’
English anopheles
Today it means
noun That which kills mosquitos.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / anophelicide