insulter

English

Etymology

From insult +‎ -er.

Noun

insulter (plural insulters)

  1. Someone who insults.

Translations

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin insultō. Morphologically, from insulte +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Verb

insulter

  1. to insult

Conjugation
Conjugation of insulter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple insulter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple insultant
/ɛ̃.syl.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle insulté
/ɛ̃.syl.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present insulte
/ɛ̃.sylt/		 insultes
/ɛ̃.sylt/		 insulte
/ɛ̃.sylt/		 insultons
/ɛ̃.syl.tɔ̃/		 insultez
/ɛ̃.syl.te/		 insultent
/ɛ̃.sylt/
imperfect insultais
/ɛ̃.syl.tɛ/		 insultais
/ɛ̃.syl.tɛ/		 insultait
/ɛ̃.syl.tɛ/		 insultions
/ɛ̃.syl.tjɔ̃/		 insultiez
/ɛ̃.syl.tje/		 insultaient
/ɛ̃.syl.tɛ/
past historic2 insultai
/ɛ̃.syl.te/		 insultas
/ɛ̃.syl.ta/		 insulta
/ɛ̃.syl.ta/		 insultâmes
/ɛ̃.syl.tam/		 insultâtes
/ɛ̃.syl.tat/		 insultèrent
/ɛ̃.syl.tɛʁ/
future insulterai
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁe/		 insulteras
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁa/		 insultera
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁa/		 insulterons
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁɔ̃/		 insulterez
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁe/		 insulteront
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional insulterais
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/		 insulterais
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/		 insulterait
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/		 insulterions
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 insulteriez
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁje/		 insulteraient
/ɛ̃.syl.tə.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 insulte
/ɛ̃.sylt/		 insultes
/ɛ̃.sylt/		 insulte
/ɛ̃.sylt/		 insultions
/ɛ̃.syl.tjɔ̃/		 insultiez
/ɛ̃.syl.tje/		 insultent
/ɛ̃.sylt/
imperfect2 insultasse
/ɛ̃.syl.tas/		 insultasses
/ɛ̃.syl.tas/		 insultât
/ɛ̃.syl.ta/		 insultassions
/ɛ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃/		 insultassiez
/ɛ̃.syl.ta.sje/		 insultassent
/ɛ̃.syl.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — insulte
/ɛ̃.sylt/		 — insultons
/ɛ̃.syl.tɔ̃/		 insultez
/ɛ̃.syl.te/		 —
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants
  • → Romanian: insulta

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈsul.ter/, [ĩːˈs̠ʊɫ̪t̪ɛr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈsul.ter/, [inˈsul̪t̪er]

Verb

īnsulter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnsultō
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