"radioactif" meaning in French

See radioactif in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ʁa.djɔ.ak.tif/ Forms: radioactive [feminine], radioactifs [masculine, plural], radioactives [feminine, plural]
Etymology: Coined by Pierre Curie and Marie Curie in 1898 from radio- + actif. Etymology templates: {{af|fr|radio-|actif}} radio- + actif Head templates: {{fr-adj}} radioactif (feminine radioactive, masculine plural radioactifs, feminine plural radioactives)
  1. radioactive Wikipedia link: Marie Curie, Pierre Curie Derived forms: déchet radioactif, radioactivité

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "radio-",
        "3": "actif"
      },
      "expansion": "radio- + actif",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Pierre Curie and Marie Curie in 1898 from radio- + actif.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "radioactive",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "radioactifs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "radioactives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "radioactif (feminine radioactive, masculine plural radioactifs, feminine plural radioactives)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French terms prefixed with radio-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "déchet radioactif"
        },
        {
          "word": "radioactivité"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "On a new radioactive substance contained in pitchblende",
          "roman": "Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende",
          "text": "1898, Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, title of article in Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences t. 127",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "radioactive"
      ],
      "id": "en-radioactif-fr-adj-WjAeA1Zj",
      "links": [
        [
          "radioactive",
          "radioactive"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Marie Curie",
        "Pierre Curie"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʁa.djɔ.ak.tif/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "radioactif"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "déchet radioactif"
    },
    {
      "word": "radioactivité"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "radio-",
        "3": "actif"
      },
      "expansion": "radio- + actif",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Pierre Curie and Marie Curie in 1898 from radio- + actif.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "radioactive",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "radioactifs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "radioactives",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "radioactif (feminine radioactive, masculine plural radioactifs, feminine plural radioactives)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 4-syllable words",
        "French adjectives",
        "French coinages",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French terms prefixed with radio-",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "On a new radioactive substance contained in pitchblende",
          "roman": "Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende",
          "text": "1898, Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, title of article in Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences t. 127",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "radioactive"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "radioactive",
          "radioactive"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Marie Curie",
        "Pierre Curie"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʁa.djɔ.ak.tif/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "radioactif"
}

Download raw JSONL data for radioactif meaning in French (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.