inactivation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

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Ancient Greek ἐνεργητικός (energētikós)sl.

Latin āctīvus

Latin ināctīvuslbor.

French inactifder.

English inactive

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English inactivation

From in- +‎ activation or inactive +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

inactivation (countable and uncountable, plural inactivations)

1. The process of rendering something inactive.

Derived terms

• autoinactivation
• bioinactivation
• deinactivation
• phosphoinactivation
• photoinactivation
• pre-inactivation
• thermoinactivation
• X-inactivation

Translations

process of rendering something inactive

• Finnish: inaktivointi, käytöstäpoisto
• French: inactivation (fr) f
• German: Inaktivierung f
• Kazakh: инактивация (ıynaktiyvacıya)
• Polish: dezaktywacja (pl) f, dezaktywizacja f
• Romanian: inactivare (ro) f
• Russian: инактивация (ru) f (inaktivacija)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• deactivation

Anagrams

• vaticination

French

Etymology

From inactiver +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.nak.ti.va.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

inactivation f (plural inactivations)

1. inactivation

Further reading

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