calciner
French, verb/kal.si.ne/
calciner is spelled C-A-L-C-I-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calciner is a French verb meaning “to calcinate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Transformer du carbonate calcaire en chaux vive à l’aide d’une forte chaleur”.
What does calciner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to calcinate
- 2
to calcine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Transformer du carbonate calcaire en chaux vive à l’aide d’une forte chaleur. 2. Soumettre des matières solides quelconques à l’action du feu. 3. Faire éprouver une violente action du feu à quelque chose. 4. Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of calciner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- calcinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- calciné participle past
- calcine first-person indicative present
- calcines indicative present second-person
- calcinons first-person indicative plural
- calcinez indicative plural present
- calcinent indicative plural present
- calcinais first-person imperfect indicative
- calcinait imperfect indicative singular
- calcinions first-person imperfect indicative
- calciniez imperfect indicative plural
- calcinaient imperfect indicative plural
- calcinai first-person historic indicative
- calcinas historic indicative past
- calcina historic indicative past
- calcinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calciner?
- /kal.si.ne/
- \kal.si.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calciner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calciner in French?
calciner appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).