humidifier

English

An ultrasonic humidifier

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin ūmeō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin ūmidus

Latin hūmidusder.

Old French humideder.

English humid

Latin -i-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *θakos

Proto-Italic *-fakos

Latin -ficus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -ficō

Latin -ificāreder.

Old French -ifierbor.

Middle English -ifien

English -ify

English humidify

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English humidifier

From humidify + -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

humidifier (plural humidifiers)

1. A device that is used to increase the humidity of the air.
   • 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 11:

     Even the plants look expensive. A humidifier hisses beneath her calatheas.

Antonyms

• dehumidifier

Related terms

• humidify

Translations

A device that is used to increase the humidity of the air

• Belarusian: увільгатня́льнік m (uvilʹhatnjálʹnik)
• Catalan: humidificador m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 放濕機 / 放湿机 (fong³ sap¹ gei¹)

  Mandarin: 加濕器 / 加湿器 (zh) (jiāshīqì)

• Czech: zvlhčovač vzduchu m
• Dutch: luchtbevochtiger (nl) m
• Finnish: ilmankostutin
• French: humidificateur (fr) m (machine), saturateur (fr) m (container)
• Galician: humidificador (gl) m
• Georgian: სატენიანებელი (saṭenianebeli), დამატენიანებელი (damaṭenianebeli), ჰაერის დამატენიანებელი (haeris damaṭenianebeli)
• German: Luftbefeuchter (de) m, Befeuchter m
• Italian: umidificatore (it) m
• Japanese: 加濕器 (かしつき, kashitsu-ki)
• Korean: 가습기(加濕器) (ko) (gaseupgi)
• Macedonian: развлажнувач m (razvlažnuvač), навлажнувач m (navlažnuvač)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: агаар чийгшүүлэгч (agaar čiigšüülegč), чийглүүр (čiiglüür) (China)

  Mongolian script: ᠠᠭᠠᠷ
  ᠴᠢᠭᠢᠭᠰᠢᠭᠦᠯᠦᠭᠴᠢ (aɣar čigigsiɣülügči), ᠴᠢᠭᠢᠭ᠌ᠯᠡᠭᠦᠷ (čigiglegür)

• Polish: nawilżacz m
• Portuguese: umidificador (pt) m (Brazil), humidificador (pt) f (Portugal)
• Russian: увлажни́тель (ru) m (uvlažnítelʹ)
• Spanish: humidificador (es) m
• Swedish: luftfuktare c
• Ukrainian: зволо́жувач m (zvolóžuvač)

French

Etymology

From humide (“humid”) +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.mi.di.fje/

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Verb

humidifier

1. to humidify

   Antonym: déshumidifier

Conjugation

Conjugation of humidifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	humidifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	humidifiant /y.mi.di.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		humidifié /y.mi.di.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	humidifie /y.mi.di.fi/	humidifies /y.mi.di.fi/	humidifie /y.mi.di.fi/	humidifions /y.mi.di.fjɔ̃/	humidifiez /y.mi.di.fje/	humidifient /y.mi.di.fi/
	imperfect	humidifiais /y.mi.di.fjɛ/	humidifiais /y.mi.di.fjɛ/	humidifiait /y.mi.di.fjɛ/	humidifiions /y.mi.di.fi.jɔ̃/	humidifiiez /y.mi.di.fi.je/	humidifiaient /y.mi.di.fjɛ/
	past historic2	humidifiai /y.mi.di.fje/	humidifias /y.mi.di.fja/	humidifia /y.mi.di.fja/	humidifiâmes /y.mi.di.fjam/	humidifiâtes /y.mi.di.fjat/	humidifièrent /y.mi.di.fjɛʁ/
	future	humidifierai /y.mi.di.fi.ʁe/	humidifieras /y.mi.di.fi.ʁa/	humidifiera /y.mi.di.fi.ʁa/	humidifierons /y.mi.di.fi.ʁɔ̃/	humidifierez /y.mi.di.fi.ʁe/	humidifieront /y.mi.di.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	humidifierais /y.mi.di.fi.ʁɛ/	humidifierais /y.mi.di.fi.ʁɛ/	humidifierait /y.mi.di.fi.ʁɛ/	humidifierions /y.mi.di.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	humidifieriez /y.mi.di.fi.ʁje/	humidifieraient /y.mi.di.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	humidifie /y.mi.di.fi/	humidifies /y.mi.di.fi/	humidifie /y.mi.di.fi/	humidifiions /y.mi.di.fi.jɔ̃/	humidifiiez /y.mi.di.fi.je/	humidifient /y.mi.di.fi/
	imperfect2	humidifiasse /y.mi.di.fjas/	humidifiasses /y.mi.di.fjas/	humidifiât /y.mi.di.fja/	humidifiassions /y.mi.di.fja.sjɔ̃/	humidifiassiez /y.mi.di.fja.sje/	humidifiassent /y.mi.di.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	humidifie /y.mi.di.fi/	—	humidifions /y.mi.di.fjɔ̃/	humidifiez /y.mi.di.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).

Derived terms

• humidificateur

Further reading

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