battre

From Middle French battre, from Old French batre, from Late Latin battere, present active infinitive of battō, alternative form of Latin battuō (“beat, pound; fight”), of Gaulish origin.

• IPA^(key): /batʁ/

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battre

1. to beat; to defeat
2. to beat up
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fight
4. (cooking) to whisk or whip (eggs)
5. (agriculture) to thresh
6. (card games) to shuffle

This verb is conjugated like vendre, perdre, etc. (sometimes called the regular -re verbs), except that instead of *batt and *batts, it has the forms bat and bats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.

• battage
• batterie
• battement
• battoir
• battre comme plâtre
• battre à plate couture
• battre en brèche
• battre en retraite
• battre monnaie
• contrebattre
• rabattre

• “battre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French batre.

battre

1. (reflexive, se battre) to fight; to engage in combat

• combattre

• French: battre

From Old French batre, from Late Latin battō, alternative form of Latin battuō (“I beat, pound; I fight”).

battre (gerund batt'tie)

1. (Jersey) to beat
2. (Jersey, reflexive, s'battre) to fight

• battre lé beurre (“to make butter”)