English
feticidal
From feticide + -al or fetus + -icidal.
Formed from feticide + -al
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- ‘to cut, hew’
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂éydeti
Proto-Italic *kaidō ‘to cut, hew, fell’
Latin caedō ‘to cut, hew, fell’
English feticide
Today it means
adj Killing a fetus.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / feticidal