pesticide
French, noun/pɛs.ti.sid/
pesticide is a French masculine noun meaning “pesticide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Substance chimique destinée à éliminer les parasites animaux ou végétaux qui pourraient s’attaquer aux…”.
What does pesticide mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepesticide
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Substance chimique destinée à éliminer les parasites animaux ou végétaux qui pourraient s’attaquer aux cultures.
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 pesticide
- pesticides plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pesticide?
- /pɛs.ti.sid/
- \pɛs.ti.sid\
- [pɛs.ti.sid]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pesticide
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pesticide in French?
pesticide appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).