insecticide

insecticide

English

Etymology

From French insecticide, as insect +‎ -icide.

Pronunciation

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Noun

insecticide (countable and uncountable, plural insecticides)

1. A substance used to kill insects.
   • 2009, Handbook of Pesticides: Methods of Pesticide Residues Analysis, →ISBN:

     The dried seed powder of custard apple (Annona squamosa L; family: Annonaceae) has been used as an insecticide in India and many other tropical countries since ancient times.

Related terms

• insect
• insecticidal

Translations

A substance used to kill insects

Armenian: միջատասպան (hy) (miǰataspan) Catalan: insecticida m Chinese: Mandarin: 殺蟲劑／杀虫剂 (zh) (shāchóngjì) Czech: insekticid (cs) m Dutch: insecticide (nl) n Faroese: skordýratýnari m Finnish: hyönteismyrkky (fi) French: insecticide (fr) m Galician: insecticida m German: Insektengift (de) n, Insektizid (de) n Greek: εντομοκτόνο (el) n (entomoktóno) Hungarian: rovarirtó (hu) Indonesian: insektisida (id) Irish: feithidicíd f, feithidnimh f Italian: insetticida (it) f Japanese: 殺虫剤 (ja) (さっちゅうざい, satchūzai) Kazakh: жәндікжойғы (jändıkjoiğy) Korean: 살충제 (ko) (salchungje) Latin: insecticida f Malay: insektisid Navajo: chʼosh bee yigání Norwegian: Bokmål: insektmiddel n Nynorsk: insektmiddel n Persian: حشره‌کش‎ (hašare-keš) Polish: środek owadobójczy m Portuguese: inseticida (pt) m Romanian: insecticid (ro) n Russian: инсектици́д (ru) m (insekticíd) Spanish: insecticida f Swahili: dawa ya wadudu class n/n Swedish: insektsgift n Tagalog: pamatay-kulisap Thai: ยาฆ่าแมลง (yaa-kâa-má-lɛɛng) Tibetan: འབུ་སྨན ('bu sman) Turkish: insektisit (tr)

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French

Etymology

insecte +‎ -cide

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sɛk.ti.sid/

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Noun

insecticide m (plural insecticides)

1. insecticide

Further reading

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