pasteurize

English

Alternative forms

• pasteurise

Etymology

Borrowed from French pasteuriser. From Louis Pasteur, the inventor of the process, + -ize.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæst͡ʃəɹaɪz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːstʃəɹaɪz/

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Verb

pasteurize (third-person singular simple present pasteurizes, present participle pasteurizing, simple past and past participle pasteurized)

1. (transitive) To heat food for the purpose of killing harmful organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, molds, and yeasts.

Translations

to heat food in order to kill harmful organisms

• Bulgarian: пастьоризирам (pastjoriziram)
• Catalan: pasteuritzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴氏殺菌／巴氏杀菌 (zh) (bāshì shājūn)

• Czech: pasterizovat (cs)
• Esperanto: pasteŭrizi
• Finnish: pastöroida (fi)
• French: pasteuriser (fr)
• German: pasteurisieren (de)
• Greek: παστεριώνω (el) (pasterióno), αποστειρώνω (el) (aposteiróno)
• Hebrew: לפסטר m pl (lepaster)
• Hungarian: pasztőröz (hu)
• Icelandic: gerilsneyða
• Ido: pasteurisar (io)
• Italian: uperizzare, pastorizzare (it)
• Japanese: 低温殺菌する (ja) (ていおんさっきんする, teionsakkin suru)
• Polish: pasteryzować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: pasteurizar (pt)
• Romanian: pasteuriza (ro)
• Russian: пастеризова́ть (ru) impf or pf (pastɛrizovátʹ)
• Spanish: pasterizar (es), pasteurizar (es)
• Swedish: pastörisera (sv)
• Turkish: pastörize etmek (tr)

Further reading

• “pasteurize”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Portuguese

Verb

pasteurize

1. inflection of pasteurizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative