pacifier

English

baby pacifier

Etymology

From pacify +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England)

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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: (UK) dummy, (Australia, NZ) comforter, (Canada, Ireland) soother; see also Thesaurus:pacifier

Translations

one who pacifies

• Arabic: صَانِع سَلَام‎ m (ṣāniʕ salām), صَانِعَة سَلَام‎ f (ṣāniʕat 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)
• German: Befrieder m, Beruhiger m
• 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, mirotvorac (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: биберо́н m (biberón)
• Burmese: နို့လိမ် (my) (nui.lim)
• Catalan: xumet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 奶嘴 (naai⁵ zeoi²)

  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, sousèt
• Hebrew: מוֹצֵץ‎ m (motsets)
• Hindi: चुसनी (hi) f (cusnī)
• Hungarian: cumi (hu)
• Icelandic: snuð n, snudda f
• Ido: vicemamilo (io)
• Ingrian: nännä
• Irish: gobán m
• 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
• Welsh: teth lwgu f
• Yiddish: סאָסקע‎ f (soske), צומי‎ f (tsumi)

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Latin 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.