What is the opposite of the ending "-cide" (as in "suicide", "pesticide")?
I'm looking for the antonym of -cide (as in suicide, pesticide, etc.). Essentially the ending to words that would mean "to create or embrace".
Solution 1:
The suffix ‑genesis can be added to connote creation. Wiktionary has a list of words ending in ‑genesis.
Solution 2:
In the biomedical field, we add the adjective suffix /-genic/ and the noun suffix /-genesis/ to words to indicate creation, e.g., oncogenic/oncogenesis, tumorigenic/tumorigenesis, etc.