bateren
Catalan edit
Verb edit
bateren
Galician edit
Verb edit
bateren
- inflection of bater:
Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French batre (< Latin battere, earlier battuere), with the Old French infinitival ending retained as if baten (“to beat”) + -eren.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bateren (third-person singular simple present batereth, present participle baterende, baterynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle batered)
- To batter; to forcefully or repetitively beat or whack.
- (rare, of a bird) To flap one's wings.
- (rare) To pat; to gently and lightly touch.
- (rare, music) To resound; to produce vibrations.
- (rare) To impress; to produce an image on.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of bateren (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “bat(e)ren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.