catapulter

English

Etymology

catapult +‎ -er

Noun

catapulter (plural catapulters)

1. One who uses a catapult.
   • 2009, Matthew Reilly, The Five Greatest Warriors, Simon and Schuster, published 2010, →ISBN, page 118:

     Then he loaded one of the lattice-shrouded cannonballs into the trebuchet’s sling, pulled out a lighter, and, as Genghis Khan’s catapulters would have done 800 years previously, lit the wooden kindling inside it and fired.

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

catapulter

1. to catapult

Conjugation

Conjugation of catapulter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	catapulter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	catapultant /ka.ta.pyl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		catapulté /ka.ta.pyl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/	catapultes /ka.ta.pylt/	catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/	catapultons /ka.ta.pyl.tɔ̃/	catapultez /ka.ta.pyl.te/	catapultent /ka.ta.pylt/
	imperfect	catapultais /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/	catapultais /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/	catapultait /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/	catapultions /ka.ta.pyl.tjɔ̃/	catapultiez /ka.ta.pyl.tje/	catapultaient /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/
	past historic2	catapultai /ka.ta.pyl.te/	catapultas /ka.ta.pyl.ta/	catapulta /ka.ta.pyl.ta/	catapultâmes /ka.ta.pyl.tam/	catapultâtes /ka.ta.pyl.tat/	catapultèrent /ka.ta.pyl.tɛʁ/
	future	catapulterai /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁe/	catapulteras /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁa/	catapultera /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁa/	catapulterons /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	catapulterez /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁe/	catapulteront /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	catapulterais /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/	catapulterais /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/	catapulterait /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/	catapulterions /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	catapulteriez /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁje/	catapulteraient /ka.ta.pyl.tə.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	catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/	catapultes /ka.ta.pylt/	catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/	catapultions /ka.ta.pyl.tjɔ̃/	catapultiez /ka.ta.pyl.tje/	catapultent /ka.ta.pylt/
	imperfect2	catapultasse /ka.ta.pyl.tas/	catapultasses /ka.ta.pyl.tas/	catapultât /ka.ta.pyl.ta/	catapultassions /ka.ta.pyl.ta.sjɔ̃/	catapultassiez /ka.ta.pyl.ta.sje/	catapultassent /ka.ta.pyl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/	—	catapultons /ka.ta.pyl.tɔ̃/	catapultez /ka.ta.pyl.te/	—
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

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