phlogistique
French, noun
phlogistique is a French masculine noun meaning “phlogiston” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, phlogistiqué is a different word: “phlogisticated”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fluide calorique qui, dans la théorie de Georg Ernst Stahl et de ses successeurs, servait à expliquer la…”.
What does phlogistique mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineobsoletephlogiston
adjective
- 1
obsoletephlogistic
adjective
- 1
phlogisticated
verb
- 1
past participle of phlogistiquer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fluide calorique qui, dans la théorie de Georg Ernst Stahl et de ses successeurs, servait à expliquer la combustion.
adjective: 1. Qui est à l'état de combinaison avec le phlogistique.
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 phlogistique
- phlogistiques plural
- phlogistiquée feminine
- phlogistiqués masculine plural
- phlogistiquées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to phlogistique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is phlogistique in French?
phlogistique 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).