decedent
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
-ent
-cede
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
decedent
a person who departed from life; a deceased person
故人
See also: Similarly decease is also from de- (from) + -cede (go): decease
Dissection of decedent
decedent = de- (away, from, down) + -cede (go, extended further to mean depart) + remove e + -ent (a person who);
decedent = a person who had departed from life
Now Repeat my Dissection
decedent = a person who had departed from life
Important roots for this word:
de-
-ent
-cede
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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