pacifier

English

Etymology

From pacify +‎ -er.

Noun

pacifier (plural pacifiers)

1. Someone or something that pacifies. [from 16th c.]
2. (North America) 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

• binky, piece, bo-bo, nookie (United States)
• dummy, comforter (Britain, Australia, New Zealand)
• soother (Canada, Ireland)

Translations

one who pacifies

• Arabic: صانع سلام (ar) (ṣāniʿ salām) m, صانعة سلام (ar) (ṣāniʿat salām) f, مصلح (ar) (múṣliḥ) m, مصلحة (ar) (muṣliḥa) f
• Finnish: rauhoittaja (fi)
• French: pacificateur (fr) m

• Italian: pacificatore (it), paciere (it) m
• Latin: pācātor (la) m, pācificātor (la) m
• Swedish: lugnare (sv) c

for a baby

• Albanian: kapëz (sq) f
• Arabic: Arabic: please add this translation if you can

  Egyptian Arabic: تتينة (tetīna) f

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奶嘴 (cmn) (nǎizuǐ)

• Czech: dudlík (cs) m
• Dutch: fopspeen (nl), speen (nl)
• Esperanto: suĉilo (eo)
• Finnish: tutti (fi), huvitutti (fi)
• French: suce (fr), tétine (fr) f, tototte (fr) f
• German: Schnuller (de) m, Beruhigungssauger (de) m (formal)
• Greek: πιπίλα (el) (pipila) f 
• Hungarian: cumi (hu)
• Icelandic: snuð (is) n, snudda (is) f
• Italian: ciuccio (it) m, ciucciotto (it) m, succhiotto (it) m, tettarella (it) f
• Japanese: おしゃぶり (ja) (o-shaburi)

• Korean: 인공 젖꼭지 (ko) (ingong jeojkkogji)
• Macedonian: цуцла (mk) (cúcla) f
• Norwegian: smukk (no) m
• Persian: پستانک (fa)
• Polish: smoczek (pl)
• Portuguese: chupeta (pt) f
• Russian: пустышка (ru) (pustýška) f , соска (ru) (sóska) f 
• Serbo-Croatian: цуцла (sh) f, лажа (sh) f

  Roman: cucla (sh) f, laža (sh) f

• 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 (sv) c, napp (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagapayapa (tl)
• Turkish: emzik (tr)

External links

• http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002594.php
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifier

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pa.si.fje/

Verb

pacifier

1. to pacify

Conjugation

   Conjugation of pacifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		pacifier			avoir pacifié
gerund		en pacifiant			en ayant pacifié
present participle		pacifiant
past participle		pacifié
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	pacifie	pacifies	pacifie	pacifions	pacifiez	pacifient
	imperfect	pacifiais	pacifiais	pacifiait	pacifiions	pacifiiez	pacifiaient
	past historic1	pacifiai	pacifias	pacifia	pacifiâmes	pacifiâtes	pacifièrent
	future	pacifierai	pacifieras	pacifiera	pacifierons	pacifierez	pacifieront
	conditional	pacifierais	pacifierais	pacifierait	pacifierions	pacifieriez	pacifieraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	pacifie	pacifies	pacifie	pacifiions	pacifiiez	pacifient
	imperfect1	pacifiasse	pacifiasses	pacifiât	pacifiassions	pacifiassiez	pacifiassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	pacifie	—	pacifions	pacifiez	—
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