étioler

French

Etymology

Probably from a dialectal variant of éteule (“stubble”) +‎ -er, from Old French esteule, dialectal variant of Picard estoble, from Late Latin stupula, from Latin stipula (“stubble, stalk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.tjɔ.le/

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Verb

étioler

1. to etiolate (to render pale)

Conjugation

Conjugation of étioler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	étioler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	étiolant /e.tjɔ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		étiolé /e.tjɔ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	étiole /e.tjɔl/	étioles /e.tjɔl/	étiole /e.tjɔl/	étiolons /e.tjɔ.lɔ̃/	étiolez /e.tjɔ.le/	étiolent /e.tjɔl/
	imperfect	étiolais /e.tjɔ.lɛ/	étiolais /e.tjɔ.lɛ/	étiolait /e.tjɔ.lɛ/	étiolions /e.tjɔ.ljɔ̃/	étioliez /e.tjɔ.lje/	étiolaient /e.tjɔ.lɛ/
	past historic2	étiolai /e.tjɔ.le/	étiolas /e.tjɔ.la/	étiola /e.tjɔ.la/	étiolâmes /e.tjɔ.lam/	étiolâtes /e.tjɔ.lat/	étiolèrent /e.tjɔ.lɛʁ/
	future	étiolerai /e.tjɔl.ʁe/	étioleras /e.tjɔl.ʁa/	étiolera /e.tjɔl.ʁa/	étiolerons /e.tjɔl.ʁɔ̃/	étiolerez /e.tjɔl.ʁe/	étioleront /e.tjɔl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	étiolerais /e.tjɔl.ʁɛ/	étiolerais /e.tjɔl.ʁɛ/	étiolerait /e.tjɔl.ʁɛ/	étiolerions /e.tjɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	étioleriez /e.tjɔ.lə.ʁje/	étioleraient /e.tjɔl.ʁɛ/
(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	étiole /e.tjɔl/	étioles /e.tjɔl/	étiole /e.tjɔl/	étiolions /e.tjɔ.ljɔ̃/	étioliez /e.tjɔ.lje/	étiolent /e.tjɔl/
	imperfect2	étiolasse /e.tjɔ.las/	étiolasses /e.tjɔ.las/	étiolât /e.tjɔ.la/	étiolassions /e.tjɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	étiolassiez /e.tjɔ.la.sje/	étiolassent /e.tjɔ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	étiole /e.tjɔl/	—	étiolons /e.tjɔ.lɔ̃/	étiolez /e.tjɔ.le/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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