insecticida

Latin

Etymology

From īnsectum (“insect”) +‎ -cīda (“killer”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩː.sɛk.tɪˈkiː.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in.sek.tiˈt͡ʃiː.da]

Noun

īnsecticīda m (genitive īnsecticīdae); first declension

1. (New Latin) insecticide
   • 2018, Tuomo Pekkanen, Unio Europaea insecticidas neonicotinoides vetuit , Nuntii Latini 4.5.2018:

     Ūniō Eurōpaea vetuit, nē īnsecticīdae neonicotinoīdēs in agrīs adhibērentur.

     The European Union has banned the application of neonicotinoid insecticides on fields.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnsecticīda	īnsecticīdae
genitive	īnsecticīdae	īnsecticīdārum
dative	īnsecticīdae	īnsecticīdīs
accusative	īnsecticīdam	īnsecticīdās
ablative	īnsecticīdā	īnsecticīdīs
vocative	īnsecticīda	īnsecticīdae

Descendants

• → Czech: insekticid
• → English: insecticide
• → French: insecticide
• → German: Insektizid
• → Italian: insetticide
• → Portuguese: inseticida
• → Serbo-Croatian: insekticid
• → Spanish: insecticida
• → Swedish: insekticid

Portuguese

Noun

insecticida m (plural insecticidas)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of inseticida; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Further reading

• “insecticida”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Noun

insecticida m (plural insecticidas)

1. insecticide

Further reading

• “insecticida”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025