pesticide

English

Etymology

pest +‎ -i- +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pesticide (plural pesticides)

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.
- 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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:pesticide.

Related terms

Translations

substance used to kill or repress the activities of pests

Armenian: պեստիցիդ (hy) (pesticʿid)
Catalan: plaguicida m, pesticida m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 殺蟲劑 (zh), 杀虫剂 (zh) (shāchóngjì), 農藥 (zh), 农药 (zh) (nóngyào)
Czech: pesticid (cs) m
Erzya: паксьменге (paksʹmenge)
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 (さっちゅうざい, satchūzai), 農薬 (のうやく, nōyaku)
Polish: pestycyd (pl) m
Portuguese: pesticida (pt) m
Russian: пестици́д (ru) m (pesticíd)
Serbo-Croatian: pestìcīd (sh) m
Spanish: pesticida (es), plaguicida (es)
Swedish: bekämpningsmedel n, pesticid c
Tagalog: lasonangol, pestisidyo
Turkish: pestisit (tr)

Anagrams

septicide

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed, probably from English pesticide.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌpɛs.tiˈsi.də/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: pes‧ti‧ci‧de
Rhymes: -idə

Noun

pesticide m or n (plural pesticides or pesticiden)

pesticide

See also

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French

Etymology

peste +‎ -cide

Noun

pesticide m (plural pesticides)

pesticide

Italian

Adjective

pesticide

feminine plural of pesticida

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