calciner

English

Etymology

calcine +‎ -er

Noun

calciner (plural calciners)

1. A person who calcines.
2. A device or container in which calcination takes place.

Translations

a device used for calcination

• Cornish: rostva f

Anagrams

• larcenic

French

Etymology

From Latin calcem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal.si.ne/

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Verb

calciner

1. (transitive) to calcinate
2. (transitive) to calcine

Conjugation

Conjugation of calciner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	calciner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	calcinant /kal.si.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		calciné /kal.si.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	calcine /kal.sin/	calcines /kal.sin/	calcine /kal.sin/	calcinons /kal.si.nɔ̃/	calcinez /kal.si.ne/	calcinent /kal.sin/
	imperfect	calcinais /kal.si.nɛ/	calcinais /kal.si.nɛ/	calcinait /kal.si.nɛ/	calcinions /kal.si.njɔ̃/	calciniez /kal.si.nje/	calcinaient /kal.si.nɛ/
	past historic2	calcinai /kal.si.ne/	calcinas /kal.si.na/	calcina /kal.si.na/	calcinâmes /kal.si.nam/	calcinâtes /kal.si.nat/	calcinèrent /kal.si.nɛʁ/
	future	calcinerai /kal.sin.ʁe/	calcineras /kal.sin.ʁa/	calcinera /kal.sin.ʁa/	calcinerons /kal.sin.ʁɔ̃/	calcinerez /kal.sin.ʁe/	calcineront /kal.sin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	calcinerais /kal.sin.ʁɛ/	calcinerais /kal.sin.ʁɛ/	calcinerait /kal.sin.ʁɛ/	calcinerions /kal.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	calcineriez /kal.si.nə.ʁje/	calcineraient /kal.sin.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	calcine /kal.sin/	calcines /kal.sin/	calcine /kal.sin/	calcinions /kal.si.njɔ̃/	calciniez /kal.si.nje/	calcinent /kal.sin/
	imperfect2	calcinasse /kal.si.nas/	calcinasses /kal.si.nas/	calcinât /kal.si.na/	calcinassions /kal.si.na.sjɔ̃/	calcinassiez /kal.si.na.sje/	calcinassent /kal.si.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	calcine /kal.sin/	—	calcinons /kal.si.nɔ̃/	calcinez /kal.si.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

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