trotter
See also: Trotter
English
Etymology
From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒtə(r)
Noun
trotter (plural trotters)
- A horse trained for harness racingW.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
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- The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements.
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French
Etymology
From Middle French trotter, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottāre, *trotāre (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreu-, *derə-, *drā- (“to run, escape”). Cognates: see English trot. More at tread.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɔ.te/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of trotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle | trottant /tʁɔ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | trotté /tʁɔ.te/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | trotter | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | trottant /tʁɔ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
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 | trotte /tʁɔt/ |
trottes /tʁɔt/ |
trotte /tʁɔt/ |
trottons /tʁɔ.tɔ̃/ |
trottez /tʁɔ.te/ |
trottent /tʁɔt/ |
imperfect | trottais /tʁɔ.tɛ/ |
trottais /tʁɔ.tɛ/ |
trottait /tʁɔ.tɛ/ |
trottions /tʁɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
trottiez /tʁɔ.tje/ |
trottaient /tʁɔ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | trottai /tʁɔ.te/ |
trottas /tʁɔ.ta/ |
trotta /tʁɔ.ta/ |
trottâmes /tʁɔ.tam/ |
trottâtes /tʁɔ.tat/ |
trottèrent /tʁɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | trotterai /tʁɔ.tʁe/ |
trotteras /tʁɔ.tʁa/ |
trottera /tʁɔ.tʁa/ |
trotterons /tʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
trotterez /tʁɔ.tʁe/ |
trotteront /tʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | trotterais /tʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
trotterais /tʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
trotterait /tʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
trotterions /tʁɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trotteriez /tʁɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
trotteraient /tʁɔ.tʁɛ/ | |
(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 | trotte /tʁɔt/ |
trottes /tʁɔt/ |
trotte /tʁɔt/ |
trottions /tʁɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
trottiez /tʁɔ.tje/ |
trottent /tʁɔt/ |
imperfect2 | trottasse /tʁɔ.tas/ |
trottasses /tʁɔ.tas/ |
trottât /tʁɔ.ta/ |
trottassions /tʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
trottassiez /tʁɔ.ta.sje/ |
trottassent /tʁɔ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | trotte /tʁɔt/ |
— | trottons /tʁɔ.tɔ̃/ |
trottez /tʁɔ.te/ |
— | |
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
- “trotter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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