flamboyer
English
Noun
flamboyer (plural flamboyers)
- (botany, archaic) Any of various trees in the East and West Indies with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinieae, especially of Delonix and Caesalpinia, all of which were formerly in the obsolete genus Poinciana.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 flamboyer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Etymology
flamber + -oyer; compare Catalan flamejar, Italian fiammeggiare, Spanish llamear, Portuguese chamejar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flɑ̃.bwa.je/
Conjugation
This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the ‘y’ with an ‘i’ before a silent ‘e’.
Conjugation of flamboyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | flamboyant /flɑ̃.bwa.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | flamboyé /flɑ̃.bwa.je/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | flamboyer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | flamboyant /flɑ̃.bwa.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | flamboie /flɑ̃.bwa/ |
flamboies /flɑ̃.bwa/ |
flamboie /flɑ̃.bwa/ |
flamboyons /flɑ̃.bwa.jɔ̃/ |
flamboyez /flɑ̃.bwa.je/ |
flamboient /flɑ̃.bwa/ |
| imperfect | flamboyais /flɑ̃.bwa.jɛ/ |
flamboyais /flɑ̃.bwa.jɛ/ |
flamboyait /flɑ̃.bwa.jɛ/ |
flamboyions /flɑ̃.bwaj.jɔ̃/ |
flamboyiez /flɑ̃.bwaj.je/ |
flamboyaient /flɑ̃.bwa.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | flamboyai /flɑ̃.bwa.je/ |
flamboyas /flɑ̃.bwa.ja/ |
flamboya /flɑ̃.bwa.ja/ |
flamboyâmes /flɑ̃.bwa.jam/ |
flamboyâtes /flɑ̃.bwa.jat/ |
flamboyèrent /flɑ̃.bwa.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | flamboierai /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁe/ |
flamboieras /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁa/ |
flamboiera /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁa/ |
flamboierons /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁɔ̃/ |
flamboierez /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁe/ |
flamboieront /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | flamboierais /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁɛ/ |
flamboierais /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁɛ/ |
flamboierait /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁɛ/ |
flamboierions /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁjɔ̃/ |
flamboieriez /flɑ̃.bwa.ʁje/ |
flamboieraient /flɑ̃.bwa.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 | flamboie /flɑ̃.bwa/ |
flamboies /flɑ̃.bwa/ |
flamboie /flɑ̃.bwa/ |
flamboyions /flɑ̃.bwaj.jɔ̃/ |
flamboyiez /flɑ̃.bwaj.je/ |
flamboient /flɑ̃.bwa/ |
| imperfect2 | flamboyasse /flɑ̃.bwa.jas/ |
flamboyasses /flɑ̃.bwa.jas/ |
flamboyât /flɑ̃.bwa.ja/ |
flamboyassions /flɑ̃.bwa.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
flamboyassiez /flɑ̃.bwa.ja.sje/ |
flamboyassent /flɑ̃.bwa.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | flamboie /flɑ̃.bwa/ |
— | flamboyons /flɑ̃.bwa.jɔ̃/ |
flamboyez /flɑ̃.bwa.je/ |
— | |
| 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
- “flamboyer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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