hurter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/

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Etymology 1

hurt +‎ -er

Noun

hurter (plural hurters)

1. One who hurts or does harm.
   • 1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:

     I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English hurtour, from Middle French hurtoir (modern French heurtoir); equivalent to hurt +‎ -or.

Noun

hurter (plural hurters)

1. A beam on a gun-platform that prevents damage from the wheels of a gun-carriage.
   • 2000, Emory L. Kemp, The Great Kanawha Navigation, page 60:

     For this reason the board deferred judgment until these hurters and associated tripping beams were tested in practice

Old French

Etymology

Frankish *hurton, from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”).

Verb

hurter

1. to crash into; to clatter into
   • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     qu'ert d'antre les altres sevree,
     si l'a ferue et si hurtee

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   • c. 1220, Guillaume de Lorris, Le Roman de la Rose:

     Elle se rompoit et batoit
     Et ses poingz ensemble hurtoit.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of hurter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		hurter			avoir hurté
gerund		en hurtant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		hurtant
past participle		hurté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	hurt	hurtes	hurte	hurtons	hurtez	hurtent
	imperfect	hurtoie, hurteie, hurtoe, hurteve	hurtoies, hurteies, hurtoes, hurteves	hurtoit, hurteit, hurtot, hurteve	hurtiiens, hurtiens	hurtiiez, hurtiez	hurtoient, hurteient, hurtoent, hurtevent
	preterite	hurtai	hurtas	hurta	hurtames	hurtastes	hurterent
	future	hurterai	hurteras	hurtera	hurterons	hurteroiz, hurtereiz, hurterez	hurteront
	conditional	hurteroie, hurtereie	hurteroies, hurtereies	hurteroit, hurtereit	hurteriiens, hurteriens	hurteriiez, hurteriez	hurteroient, hurtereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	hurt	hurz	hurt	hurtons	hurtez	hurtent
	imperfect	hurtasse	hurtasses	hurtast	hurtissons, hurtissiens	hurtissoiz, hurtissez, hurtissiez	hurtassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	hurte	—	hurtons	hurtez	—

Descendants

• French: heurter

Further reading

• “heurter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.