extirper
English
Noun
extirper (plural extirpers)
- (obsolete) An extirpator.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for extirper in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/
Verb
extirper
- to uproot, extirpate (pull [a plant and its roots] out of the ground)
- (medicine) to remove, take out (e.g. an organ)
- (figuratively) to weed out, get rid of, eradicate (e.g. a problem or characteristic)
- to pull out, take out, whip out (remove something from e.g. a holder, pocket, holster etc.)
- to drag out, hoist out, lug out (remove someone, with difficulty, from a place)
- (reflexive) to pull oneself out (of somewhere)
- Il s'extirpe du bar pour fumer une clope.
- He drags himself out of the bar to smoke a ciggy.
- Il s'extirpe du bar pour fumer une clope.
- (colloquial) to fish out, make someone cough up (obtain e.g. information from someone)
Conjugation
Conjugation of extirper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | extirpant /ɛk.stiʁ.pɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | extirpé /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | extirper | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | extirpant /ɛk.stiʁ.pɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | extirpe /ɛk.stiʁp/ |
extirpes /ɛk.stiʁp/ |
extirpe /ɛk.stiʁp/ |
extirpons /ɛk.stiʁ.pɔ̃/ |
extirpez /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/ |
extirpent /ɛk.stiʁp/ |
| imperfect | extirpais /ɛk.stiʁ.pɛ/ |
extirpais /ɛk.stiʁ.pɛ/ |
extirpait /ɛk.stiʁ.pɛ/ |
extirpions /ɛk.stiʁ.pjɔ̃/ |
extirpiez /ɛk.stiʁ.pje/ |
extirpaient /ɛk.stiʁ.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | extirpai /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/ |
extirpas /ɛk.stiʁ.pa/ |
extirpa /ɛk.stiʁ.pa/ |
extirpâmes /ɛk.stiʁ.pam/ |
extirpâtes /ɛk.stiʁ.pat/ |
extirpèrent /ɛk.stiʁ.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | extirperai /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁe/ |
extirperas /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁa/ |
extirpera /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁa/ |
extirperons /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɔ̃/ |
extirperez /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁe/ |
extirperont /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | extirperais /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɛ/ |
extirperais /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɛ/ |
extirperait /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁɛ/ |
extirperions /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
extirperiez /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.ʁje/ |
extirperaient /ɛk.stiʁ.pə.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 | extirpe /ɛk.stiʁp/ |
extirpes /ɛk.stiʁp/ |
extirpe /ɛk.stiʁp/ |
extirpions /ɛk.stiʁ.pjɔ̃/ |
extirpiez /ɛk.stiʁ.pje/ |
extirpent /ɛk.stiʁp/ |
| imperfect2 | extirpasse /ɛk.stiʁ.pas/ |
extirpasses /ɛk.stiʁ.pas/ |
extirpât /ɛk.stiʁ.pa/ |
extirpassions /ɛk.stiʁ.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
extirpassiez /ɛk.stiʁ.pa.sje/ |
extirpassent /ɛk.stiʁ.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | extirpe /ɛk.stiʁp/ |
— | extirpons /ɛk.stiʁ.pɔ̃/ |
extirpez /ɛk.stiʁ.pe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “extirper” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
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