pesticide

English

Etymology

From pest +‎ -i- +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstɪsaɪd/, /ˈpɛstəsaɪd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) enPR: pĕsʹtĭ-sīd', IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstɪˌsaɪd/, [ˈpɛstɪ̈ˌsaɪd]

  • Audio (Texas):

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• Hyphenation: pes‧ti‧cide

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.
   • 1983 May 26, “Pesticide residue effects under study”, in The Californian, volume 25, number 16, Temecula, Calif., page A-11:

     “Twelve pesticides commonly applied to citrus groves are slated for study in the project’s plots,” reports Tom S. Bellows, UC Riverside assistant entomologist. They include four acaricides (Morestan, Kelthane, Pictran, Vendex), four thripsicides (Cygon, Carzol, Orthene, Sabadilla), and four scalicides (Parathion, Supracide, Lorsban, Sevin).

   • 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
• Estonian: pestitsiid, taimekaitsemürk
• 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
• Indonesian: pestisida (id), racun hama, racun pembasmi hama
• 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)
• Malay: pestisid, racun perosak
• 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