fumigate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fūmigātus, past participle of fūmigō, from fūmus (“smoke”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːmɪɡeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Verb

fumigate (third-person singular simple present fumigates, present participle fumigating, simple past and past participle fumigated)

(transitive) To disinfect, purify, or rid of vermin with the fumes of certain chemicals.
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 319:
  They fumigated the Church with burnt wool and feathers instead of incense, put foul water into the holy-water basins, and celebrated a parody on the Church-service, the mock Abbot officiating at the altar; […]
- 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 87:
  ‘Pest control are coming too. They’ll be fumigating the place.’

Derived terms

Translations

disinfect

Bulgarian: опушвам (bg) (opušvam)
Catalan: fumigar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 熏製 (zh) (xūnzhì), 香薰 (zh) (xiāngxūn), 消毒 (zh) (xiāodú)
Danish: desinficere (disinfecting), gasse (using gas)
Dutch: uitroken (by using smoke)
Esperanto: fumigacii
Finnish: desinfioida (fi), savustaa (fi)
French: fumiger (fr)
Greek:
Ancient: θειόω (theióō)
Japanese: 消毒する (しょうどくする, shōdokusuru)
Latin: fūmigō
Maori: tāpoa (by using smoke)
Portuguese: fumigar (pt)
Russian: оку́ривать (ru) (okúrivatʹ)
Spanish: fumigar (es)
Tagalog: suubin
Volapük: sesmokädön

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

fumigate

inflection of fumigare:
1. second-person plural present indicative
2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

fumigate f pl

feminine plural of fumigato

Latin

Verb

fūmigāte

second-person plural present active imperative of fūmigō

Spanish

Verb

fumigate

second-person singular voseo imperative of fumigar combined with te