trucider
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin trucīdāre (“to slice the throat, to massacre”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
trucider
- (informal) to kill, slay, murder
- Synonyms: buter, descendre, occire, refroidir, saigner, zigouiller
- Il a trucidé une douzaine de personnes dans le village avant de retourner l’arme contre lui-même.
- He killed a dozen people in the village before turning the weapon against himself.
- 2008, Chrystine Brouillet, Silence de mort, page 190:
- — C’est peut-être Antoine qui s’en est chargé ? Qui l’a fait trucider ?
- "Perhaps it was Antoine who took care of him – got him killed?"
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of trucider (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | trucider | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trucidant /tʁy.si.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trucidé /tʁy.si.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trucide /tʁy.sid/ |
trucides /tʁy.sid/ |
trucide /tʁy.sid/ |
trucidons /tʁy.si.dɔ̃/ |
trucidez /tʁy.si.de/ |
trucident /tʁy.sid/ |
| imperfect | trucidais /tʁy.si.dɛ/ |
trucidais /tʁy.si.dɛ/ |
trucidait /tʁy.si.dɛ/ |
trucidions /tʁy.si.djɔ̃/ |
trucidiez /tʁy.si.dje/ |
trucidaient /tʁy.si.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trucidai /tʁy.si.de/ |
trucidas /tʁy.si.da/ |
trucida /tʁy.si.da/ |
trucidâmes /tʁy.si.dam/ |
trucidâtes /tʁy.si.dat/ |
trucidèrent /tʁy.si.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | truciderai /tʁy.si.dʁe/ |
trucideras /tʁy.si.dʁa/ |
trucidera /tʁy.si.dʁa/ |
truciderons /tʁy.si.dʁɔ̃/ |
truciderez /tʁy.si.dʁe/ |
trucideront /tʁy.si.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | truciderais /tʁy.si.dʁɛ/ |
truciderais /tʁy.si.dʁɛ/ |
truciderait /tʁy.si.dʁɛ/ |
truciderions /tʁy.si.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trucideriez /tʁy.si.də.ʁje/ |
trucideraient /tʁy.si.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 | trucide /tʁy.sid/ |
trucides /tʁy.sid/ |
trucide /tʁy.sid/ |
trucidions /tʁy.si.djɔ̃/ |
trucidiez /tʁy.si.dje/ |
trucident /tʁy.sid/ |
| imperfect2 | trucidasse /tʁy.si.das/ |
trucidasses /tʁy.si.das/ |
trucidât /tʁy.si.da/ |
trucidassions /tʁy.si.da.sjɔ̃/ |
trucidassiez /tʁy.si.da.sje/ |
trucidassent /tʁy.si.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trucide /tʁy.sid/ |
— | trucidons /tʁy.si.dɔ̃/ |
trucidez /tʁy.si.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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “trucider”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Verb edit
trucīder