pacifier
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baby pacifier
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪfaɪɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪfaɪə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: pa‧ci‧fi‧er
Noun
pacifier (plural pacifiers)
- Someone or something that pacifies.
- 1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 9:
- Many people have failed to see the political significance of the women's music movement, for they categorize all of music as part of the cultural periphery that distracts people from real social injustices. However, far from being a pacifier, women's music has presented an experience which contrasts with the social inequities of our culture's traditionally male-dominated music.
- (Canada, US) A rubber or plastic device imitating a nipple that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby.
- Synonyms: (UK) dummy, (Australia, NZ) comforter, (Canada, Ireland) soother; see also Thesaurus:pacifier
Derived terms
Translations
one who pacifies
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for a baby
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Further reading
French
Etymology
From Latin pācificāre, from pāx (“peace”).
Pronunciation
Verb
pacifier
- 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “pacifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.