pâtir

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *patīre (influenced in conjugation by *patiscere) < Latin patī, present active infinitive of patior.

Verb

pâtir

  1. (literary) to suffer

Conjugation

  • This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

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