pacifier

pacifier

English

baby pacifier

Etymology

From pacify +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK)

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ci‧fi‧er

Noun

pacifier (plural pacifiers)

1. Someone or something that pacifies. [from 16th c.]
2. (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: dummy, (UK, Australia, NZ) comforter, (Canada, Ireland) soother; see also Thesaurus:pacifier

Translations

one who pacifies

Arabic: صَانِع سَلَام‎ m (ṣāniʿ salām), صَانِعَة سَلَام‎ f (ṣāniʿat salām), مُصْلِح‎ m (muṣliḥ), مُصْلِحَة‎ f (muṣliḥa) 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) Greek: ειρηνευτής (el) m (eirineftís) Ido: pacifanto (io) Italian: pacificatore (it), paciere (it) m Latin: pācātor m, pācificātor m Maori: kaiwhakamārie Portuguese: pacificador (pt) m Russian: успокои́тель (ru) m (uspokoítelʹ) Serbo-Croatian: pacifikator (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: залъгалка (bg) f (zalǎgalka) Burmese: နို့လိမ် (my) (nui.lim) Catalan: xumet (ca) m Chinese: 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 Hebrew: מוֹצֵץ‎ m (motsets) Hindi: चुसनी (hi) f (cusnī) Hungarian: cumi (hu) Icelandic: snuð n, snudda f Ido: vicemamilo (io) Italian: ciuccio (it) m, ciucciotto m, succhiotto (it) m, tettarella f Japanese: おしゃぶり (o-shaburi) Kazakh: емізік (emızık), емізгек (emızgek) Korean: 인공 젖꼭지 (in'gong jeotkkokji), 고무 젖꼭지 (gomu jeotkkokji), 젖꼭지 (ko) (jeotkkokji) Kyrgyz: упчу (ky) (upçu), эмиздик (ky) (emizdik) Lao: ຫົວນົມຢາງ (hūa nom yāng) Latvian: māneklis m Lithuanian: žindukas m Macedonian: цуцла f (cucla) Maltese: gażaża f Norwegian: Bokmål: smokk (no) m Nynorsk: smokk 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 Yiddish: סאָסקע‎ f (soske), צומי‎ f (tsumi)

Further reading

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

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French

Etymology

From Latin pācificō, 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.