adorner

English

Etymology

adorn +‎ -er

Noun

adorner (plural adorners)

1. One who places adornments; one who adorns.
2. (graphical user interface) A visual element used to decorate or enhance another element to which it is attached.
   • 2010, Phillip Beadle, Mahesh Krishnan, Microsoft Silverlight 4 For Dummies:

     Click one of the margin adorners. The shape of the margin adorner changes […]

Translations

one who places adornments

• Portuguese: adornador m
• Ukrainian: оздоблювач (uk) (ozdobljuvač), декоратор (dekorator)

Anagrams

• Reardon, readorn

French

Etymology

Circa 1331 adourner, circa 1370 adorner. Borrowed from Latin adōrnāre and from Latin adōrdinō. Replaced Old French, Middle French aorner, a borrowing from the same sources.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔʁ.ne/

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Verb

adorner

1. (literary or dated) to adorn; to decorate

Conjugation

Conjugation of adorner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	adorner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	adornant /a.dɔʁ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		adorné /a.dɔʁ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	adorne /a.dɔʁn/	adornes /a.dɔʁn/	adorne /a.dɔʁn/	adornons /a.dɔʁ.nɔ̃/	adornez /a.dɔʁ.ne/	adornent /a.dɔʁn/
	imperfect	adornais /a.dɔʁ.nɛ/	adornais /a.dɔʁ.nɛ/	adornait /a.dɔʁ.nɛ/	adornions /a.dɔʁ.njɔ̃/	adorniez /a.dɔʁ.nje/	adornaient /a.dɔʁ.nɛ/
	past historic2	adornai /a.dɔʁ.ne/	adornas /a.dɔʁ.na/	adorna /a.dɔʁ.na/	adornâmes /a.dɔʁ.nam/	adornâtes /a.dɔʁ.nat/	adornèrent /a.dɔʁ.nɛʁ/
	future	adornerai /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁe/	adorneras /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁa/	adornera /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁa/	adornerons /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/	adornerez /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁe/	adorneront /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	adornerais /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	adornerais /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	adornerait /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁɛ/	adornerions /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	adorneriez /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁje/	adorneraient /a.dɔʁ.nə.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	adorne /a.dɔʁn/	adornes /a.dɔʁn/	adorne /a.dɔʁn/	adornions /a.dɔʁ.njɔ̃/	adorniez /a.dɔʁ.nje/	adornent /a.dɔʁn/
	imperfect2	adornasse /a.dɔʁ.nas/	adornasses /a.dɔʁ.nas/	adornât /a.dɔʁ.na/	adornassions /a.dɔʁ.na.sjɔ̃/	adornassiez /a.dɔʁ.na.sje/	adornassent /a.dɔʁ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	adorne /a.dɔʁn/	—	adornons /a.dɔʁ.nɔ̃/	adornez /a.dɔʁ.ne/	—
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

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

Latin

Verb

adōrner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adōrnō