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pesticidal
English
Etymology
From pesticide +? -al or pest +? -i- +? -cidal.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /(?)p?st??sa?d(?)l/
- (General American) enPR: p?s't?-s?d?l, IPA(key): /?p?st???sa?dl?/
- Rhymes: -a?d?l
- Hyphenation: pes?ti?cid?al
Adjective
pesticidal (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or effective as a pesticide.
Translations
Anagrams
- septicidal
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pest
English
Etymology
From Middle French peste (whence French peste), ultimately from Latin pestis.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /p?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
pest (plural pests)
- (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
- Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
- An annoying person, a nuisance.
- An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
- An invasive weed.
Synonyms
- (creature): bug
Related terms
- garden pest
- pester
- pesting
- pesthole
- pesthouse
- pesticidal, pesticide
- pestiferous
- pestilence, pestilent, pestilential
Translations
Anagrams
- EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-
Danish
Etymology
From French peste, from Latin pestis (“disease, plague, pest, destruction”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?st/, [p??sd?]
Noun
pest c (uncountable, singular definite pesten)
- (medicine) plague
- (figuratively) pestilence
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
pest f (uncountable)
- A plague, pest, pestilence.
- A specific bovine plague
- An obnoxious person
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: pes
Verb
pest
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of pesten
- imperative of pesten
References
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?st/
Noun
pest f (Arabic spelling ?????)
- pressure, oppression
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “pest”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin pestis
Noun
pest f or m (definite singular pesta or pesten, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)
- a plague
- sky (noe/noen) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague
- velge mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils
Derived terms
- byllepest
- forpeste
- pestepidemi
References
- “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin pestis
Noun
pest m (definite singular pesten, indefinite plural pestar, definite plural pestane)
pest f (definite singular pesta, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)
- a plague
- sky (noko/nokon) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague
- velje mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils
Derived terms
- byllepest
- forpeste
- pestepidemi
References
- “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *p?st?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pê?st/
Noun
p?st f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- (regional, literary) fist
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *p?st?. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian ????, pest, Slovak päs?, Russian ????? (pjast?, “middle part of the hand”) and ????????? (zapjást?je), dialectal Bulgarian (Western dialects) ??????? (pestnik), ?????? (pesnik), ???????? (pestnica). Compare Ancient Greek ????? (pugm?), English fist, German Faust.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pé?st/
Noun
p??st f
- (anatomy) fist
Inflection
Derived terms
- pésten
Swedish
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin pestis.
Noun
pest c
- A plague
- A pest; something deeply annoying
Derived terms
- blodpest
- böldpest
- lungpest
- pest och pina
- välja mellan pest och kolera
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