pesticide

English

Etymology

pest +‎ -i- +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstɨsaɪd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: pĕsʹtĭ-sīd', IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstɪ̈ˌsaɪd/
• Hyphenation: pes‧ti‧cide

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pesticide (countable and uncountable, plural pesticides)

1. Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
   • 2001, David McConnell, The Good Earth: Companion Guide, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, →ISBN, page 1.12:

     Too much pesticide was applied and then washed from the fields by rains and surface runoff.

   • 2011, Allan S. Felsot, Pesticides and Health: Myths vs. Realities, page 4:

     Pesticide and fertilizer use has been recorded since ancient times, […]

   • 2013, Meg Stout, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening, →ISBN:

     Diluted neem oil can be effective as a pesticide and can control various fungal diseases, such as powdery mildew, on animals and plants.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pesticide.

Derived terms

• agropesticide
• antipesticide
• biopesticide
• chloropesticide
• mycopesticide
• nanopesticide
• nonpesticide

 

Related terms

• pest
• pesticidal
• fungicide
• germicide
• herbicide

Translations

substance used to kill or repress the activities of pests

• Armenian: պեստիցիդ (hy) (pesticʻid)
• Bulgarian: пестицид m (pesticid)
• Catalan: plaguicida m, pesticida m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 除害劑／除害剂 (ceoi⁴ hoi⁶ zai¹)

  Mandarin: 殺蟲劑／杀虫剂 (zh) (shāchóngjì), 農藥／农药 (zh) (nóngyào), 除害劑／除害剂 (chúhài jì)

• Czech: pesticid (cs) m
• Dutch: pesticide (nl) n, verdelgingsmiddel (nl) n
• Erzya: паксьменге (pakśmenge)
• Esperanto: pesticido
• Faroese: týningarevni n
• Finnish: tuholaismyrkky (fi)
• French: pesticide (fr) m
• Galician: pesticida (gl) m
• German: Pestizid (de) n
• Greek: εντομοκτόνο (el) n (entomoktóno)
• Icelandic: skordýraeitur n, plágueyðir m, eyðingarlyf n
• Italian: pesticida (it) m
• Japanese: 殺虫剤 (ja) (さっちゅうざい, satchūzai), 農薬 (ja) (のうやく, nōyaku)
• Polish: pestycyd (pl) m
• Portuguese: pesticida (pt) m
• Romanian: pesticid (ro) n
• Russian: пестици́д (ru) m (pesticíd)
• Serbo-Croatian: pestìcīd (sh) m
• Spanish: pesticida (es), plaguicida (es)
• Swedish: bekämpningsmedel (sv) n, pesticid c
• Tagalog: lasonangol, pestisidyo
• Turkish: pestisit (tr)
• Ukrainian: пестици́д m (pestycýd)
• Yoruba: oògùn apakòkòrò

Anagrams

• septicide

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed, probably from English pesticide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɛs.tiˈsi.də/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pes‧ti‧ci‧de
• Rhymes: -idə

Noun

pesticide n (plural pesticides or pesticiden)

1. pesticide

See also

• landbouwgif

Further reading

• pesticide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Etymology

From peste +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

pesticide m (plural pesticides)

1. pesticide

Further reading

• “pesticide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

pesticide

1. feminine plural of pesticida