persuader
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈsweɪdə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /pɚˈsweɪdɚ/
Noun edit
persuader (plural persuaders)
- One who, or that which, persuades.
- 1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen[1], Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:
- […] purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
- (printing, historical, colloquial) A tool used to pack the type into the form.
- 1898, John Southward, Modern Printing: A Handbook of the Principles and Practice of Typography and the Auxiliary Arts:
- Next fit the quoins, using the “persuader” to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all around.
- (television) An electrode that directs electrons into a multiplier.
- 1953, Stanley William Amos, D. C. Birkinshaw, Television Engineering, Principles and Practice, page 108:
- These electrons are guided to the second dynode by the resultant electric field of this dynode and the persuader.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French persuader, from Latin persuādeō (“to persuade”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /pɛʁ.sɥa.de/
- Homophones: persuadai, persuadé, persuadée, persuadées, persuadés, persuadez
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Verb edit
persuader
- to persuade
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of persuader (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | persuader | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | persuadant /pɛʁ.sɥa.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | persuadé /pɛʁ.sɥa.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | persuade /pɛʁ.sɥad/ |
persuades /pɛʁ.sɥad/ |
persuade /pɛʁ.sɥad/ |
persuadons /pɛʁ.sɥa.dɔ̃/ |
persuadez /pɛʁ.sɥa.de/ |
persuadent /pɛʁ.sɥad/ |
| imperfect | persuadais /pɛʁ.sɥa.dɛ/ |
persuadais /pɛʁ.sɥa.dɛ/ |
persuadait /pɛʁ.sɥa.dɛ/ |
persuadions /pɛʁ.sɥa.djɔ̃/ |
persuadiez /pɛʁ.sɥa.dje/ |
persuadaient /pɛʁ.sɥa.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | persuadai /pɛʁ.sɥa.de/ |
persuadas /pɛʁ.sɥa.da/ |
persuada /pɛʁ.sɥa.da/ |
persuadâmes /pɛʁ.sɥa.dam/ |
persuadâtes /pɛʁ.sɥa.dat/ |
persuadèrent /pɛʁ.sɥa.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | persuaderai /pɛʁ.sɥa.dʁe/ |
persuaderas /pɛʁ.sɥa.dʁa/ |
persuadera /pɛʁ.sɥa.dʁa/ |
persuaderons /pɛʁ.sɥa.dʁɔ̃/ |
persuaderez /pɛʁ.sɥa.dʁe/ |
persuaderont /pɛʁ.sɥa.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | persuaderais /pɛʁ.sɥa.dʁɛ/ |
persuaderais /pɛʁ.sɥa.dʁɛ/ |
persuaderait /pɛʁ.sɥa.dʁɛ/ |
persuaderions /pɛʁ.sɥa.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
persuaderiez /pɛʁ.sɥa.də.ʁje/ |
persuaderaient /pɛʁ.sɥa.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | persuade /pɛʁ.sɥad/ |
persuades /pɛʁ.sɥad/ |
persuade /pɛʁ.sɥad/ |
persuadions /pɛʁ.sɥa.djɔ̃/ |
persuadiez /pɛʁ.sɥa.dje/ |
persuadent /pɛʁ.sɥad/ |
| imperfect2 | persuadasse /pɛʁ.sɥa.das/ |
persuadasses /pɛʁ.sɥa.das/ |
persuadât /pɛʁ.sɥa.da/ |
persuadassions /pɛʁ.sɥa.da.sjɔ̃/ |
persuadassiez /pɛʁ.sɥa.da.sje/ |
persuadassent /pɛʁ.sɥa.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | persuade /pɛʁ.sɥad/ |
— | persuadons /pɛʁ.sɥa.dɔ̃/ |
persuadez /pɛʁ.sɥa.de/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “persuader”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin persuādeō (“I persuade”).
Verb edit
persuader
- to persuade
Conjugation edit
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of persuader
| infinitive | simple | persuader | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | persuadant | |||||
| compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | persuadé | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | persuade | persuades | persuade | persuadons | persuadez | persuadent |
| imperfect | persuadois, persuadoys | persuadois, persuadoys | persuadoit, persuadoyt | persuadions, persuadyons | persuadiez, persuadyez | persuadoient, persuadoyent | |
| past historic | persuada | persuadas | persuada | persuadasmes | persuadastes | persuaderent | |
| future | persuaderai, persuaderay | persuaderas | persuadera | persuaderons | persuaderez | persuaderont | |
| conditional | persuaderois, persuaderoys | persuaderois, persuaderoys | persuaderoit, persuaderoyt | persuaderions, persuaderyons | persuaderiez, persuaderyez | persuaderoient, persuaderoyent | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | persuade | persuades | persuade | persuadons | persuadez | persuadent |
| imperfect | persuadasse | persuadasses | persuadast | persuadassions | persuadassiez | persuadassent | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | persuade | — | persuadons | persuadez | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
| 2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- French: persuader