pacifier

English

baby pacifier

Etymology

From pacify +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪfaɪɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪfaɪə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ci‧fi‧er

Noun

pacifier (plural pacifiers)

2. Someone or something that pacifies. [from 16th c.]
   • 1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 9:

     Many people have failed to see the political significance of the women's music movement, for they categorize all of music as part of the cultural periphery that distracts people from real social injustices. However, far from being a pacifier, women's music has presented an experience which contrasts with the social inequities of our culture's traditionally male-dominated music.

4. (Canada, US) A rubber or plastic device imitating a nipple that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: (UK) dummy, (Australia, NZ) comforter, (Canada, Ireland) soother; see also Thesaurus:pacifier

Derived terms

• paci
• pacifier gag

 

Translations

one who pacifies

• Arabic: صَانِع سَلَام m (ṣāniʕ salām), صَانِعَة سَلَام f (ṣāniʕat salām), مُصْلِح m (muṣliḥ), مُصْلِحَة f (muṣliḥa)
• Armenian: հանգստացնող անձ (hangstacʻnoġ anj)
• Bulgarian: умиротворител (bg) m (umirotvoritel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平定者 (píngdìngzhě), 撫慰者／抚慰者 (fǔwèizhě), 調解者／调解者 (tiáojiězhě)

• Dutch: pacificator m
• Finnish: rauhoittaja; rauhoittava (fi) (drug)
• French: pacificateur (fr) m
• Georgian: დამამშვიდებელი (damamšvidebeli), დამაწყნარებელი (damac̣q̇narebeli)
• German: Befrieder m, Beruhiger m
• Greek: ειρηνευτής (el) m (eirineftís)
• Ido: pacifanto (io)
• Italian: pacificatore (it), paciere (it) m
• Indonesian: penenang (id)
• Latin: pācātor m, pācificātor m
• Maori: kaiwhakamārie
• Portuguese: pacificador (pt) m
• Russian: успокои́тель (ru) m (uspokoítelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: pacifikator (sh) m, mirotvorac (sh) m
• Spanish: pacificador (es) m
• Swedish: lugnare (sv) c

for a baby

• Albanian: kapëz (sq) f
• Arabic: مَصَّاصَة f (maṣṣāṣa), لَهَّايَة f (lahhāya)

  Egyptian Arabic: تتينة f (tetīna)

  Hijazi Arabic: لَهَّاية f (lahhāya)

  Moroccan Arabic: مصاصة f (maṣṣāṣa), لهاية f (lahhāya), سكاتة f (sakkāta)

• Armenian: ծծակ (hy) (ccak)
• Azerbaijani: əmzik
• Basque: txupete
• Belarusian: со́ска f (sóska)
• Bulgarian: биберо́н m (biberón)
• Burmese: နို့လိမ် (my) (nui.lim)
• Catalan: xumet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 奶嘴 (naai⁵ zeoi²)

  Mandarin: 奶嘴 (zh) (nǎizuǐ)

• Czech: dudlík (cs) m
• Danish: sut c
• Dutch: fopspeen (nl) m, speen (nl) m
• Esperanto: suĉilo
• Estonian: lutt
• Faroese: táta f, sutta f
• Finnish: tutti (fi), huvitutti (fi)
• French: sucette (fr) f, tétine (fr) f, tototte (fr) f, suce (fr) (Canada)
• Georgian: საწოვარა (sac̣ovara)
• German: Schnuller (de) m, Beruhigungssauger m (formal)
• Greek: πιπίλα (el) f (pipíla)
• Haitian Creole: sison, sousèt
• Hebrew: מוֹצֵץ m (motsets)
• Hindi: चुसनी (hi) f (cusnī)
• Hungarian: cumi (hu)
• Icelandic: snuð n, snudda f
• Ido: vicemamilo (io)
• Indonesian: dot (id), empeng (id)
• Ingrian: nännä
• Irish: gobán m
• Italian: ciuccio (it) m, ciucciotto m, succhiotto (it) m, tettarella f
• Japanese: おしゃぶり (ja) (o-shaburi)
• Kazakh: емізік (emızık), емізгек (emızgek)
• Korean: 인공 젖꼭지 (in'gong jeotkkokji), 고무 젖꼭지 (gomu jeotkkokji), 젖꼭지 (ko) (jeotkkokji)
• Kyrgyz: упчу (ky) (upcu), эмиздик (ky) (emizdik)
• Lao: ຫົວນົມຢາງ (hūa nom yāng)
• Latvian: māneklis m
• Lithuanian: žindukas m
• Macedonian: цуцла (mk) f (cucla)
• Maltese: gażaża f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smokk (no) m

  Nynorsk: smokk m, tutt m

• Persian: پستانک (fa) (pestânak)
• Polish: smoczek (pl) m
• Portuguese: chupeta (pt) f, chucha (pt) f, pipo (pt) m, bico (pt) m (South Brazil)
• Romanian: suzetă f
• Russian: со́ска (ru) f (sóska), пусты́шка (ru) f (pustýška), со́ска-пусты́шка f (sóska-pustýška)
• Serbo-Croatian: duda (sh) f, duda varalica f

  Cyrillic: цуцла f, лажа f

  Roman: cucla (sh) f, laža (sh) f

• Slovak: cumlík m
• Slovene: duda (sl) f
• Spanish: chupete (es) m, bobo (es) m (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), chupa (es) f (Venezuela), chupo (es) m (Colombia), chupón (es) m (Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela), consuelo (es) m (Panama)
• Swedish: tutt c, napp (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagapayapa
• Tajik: пистонак (pistonak), эмизак (emizak), маккак (makkak)
• Tatar: имезлек (tt) (imezlek)
• Thai: จุกนม (jùk-nom)
• Turkish: emzik (tr)
• Turkmen: emzik
• Ukrainian: со́ска f (sóska), пусти́шка f (pustýška), пустушка f (pustuška)
• Uzbek: soʻrgʻich (uz), emizgʻich, emizik (uz)
• Vietnamese: núm vú giả, ti giả, tu ti
• Welsh: teth lwgu f
• Yiddish: סאָסקע f (soske), צומי f (tsumi)

Further reading

• pacifier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002594.php

French

Etymology

From Latin pācificāre, from pāx (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.si.fje/

• Audio:

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Verb

pacifier

1. to pacify

Conjugation

Conjugation of pacifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pacifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pacifiant /pa.si.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pacifié /pa.si.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pacifie /pa.si.fi/	pacifies /pa.si.fi/	pacifie /pa.si.fi/	pacifions /pa.si.fjɔ̃/	pacifiez /pa.si.fje/	pacifient /pa.si.fi/
	imperfect	pacifiais /pa.si.fjɛ/	pacifiais /pa.si.fjɛ/	pacifiait /pa.si.fjɛ/	pacifiions /pa.si.fi.jɔ̃/	pacifiiez /pa.si.fi.je/	pacifiaient /pa.si.fjɛ/
	past historic2	pacifiai /pa.si.fje/	pacifias /pa.si.fja/	pacifia /pa.si.fja/	pacifiâmes /pa.si.fjam/	pacifiâtes /pa.si.fjat/	pacifièrent /pa.si.fjɛʁ/
	future	pacifierai /pa.si.fi.ʁe/	pacifieras /pa.si.fi.ʁa/	pacifiera /pa.si.fi.ʁa/	pacifierons /pa.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/	pacifierez /pa.si.fi.ʁe/	pacifieront /pa.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pacifierais /pa.si.fi.ʁɛ/	pacifierais /pa.si.fi.ʁɛ/	pacifierait /pa.si.fi.ʁɛ/	pacifierions /pa.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	pacifieriez /pa.si.fi.ʁje/	pacifieraient /pa.si.fi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	pacifie /pa.si.fi/	pacifies /pa.si.fi/	pacifie /pa.si.fi/	pacifiions /pa.si.fi.jɔ̃/	pacifiiez /pa.si.fi.je/	pacifient /pa.si.fi/
	imperfect2	pacifiasse /pa.si.fjas/	pacifiasses /pa.si.fjas/	pacifiât /pa.si.fja/	pacifiassions /pa.si.fja.sjɔ̃/	pacifiassiez /pa.si.fja.sje/	pacifiassent /pa.si.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pacifie /pa.si.fi/	—	pacifions /pa.si.fjɔ̃/	pacifiez /pa.si.fje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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