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)

Anagrams

• scienticide

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed, probably from English insecticide.

Pronunciation

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Noun

insecticide n (plural insecticides or insecticiden)

1. pesticide

Further reading

• insecticide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Etymology

From 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.