dilapider

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dilapidāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.la.pi.de/

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Verb

dilapider

1. (transitive) to squander, waste, whittle away

Conjugation

Conjugation of dilapider (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dilapider
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dilapidant /di.la.pi.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dilapidé /di.la.pi.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dilapide /di.la.pid/	dilapides /di.la.pid/	dilapide /di.la.pid/	dilapidons /di.la.pi.dɔ̃/	dilapidez /di.la.pi.de/	dilapident /di.la.pid/
	imperfect	dilapidais /di.la.pi.dɛ/	dilapidais /di.la.pi.dɛ/	dilapidait /di.la.pi.dɛ/	dilapidions /di.la.pi.djɔ̃/	dilapidiez /di.la.pi.dje/	dilapidaient /di.la.pi.dɛ/
	past historic2	dilapidai /di.la.pi.de/	dilapidas /di.la.pi.da/	dilapida /di.la.pi.da/	dilapidâmes /di.la.pi.dam/	dilapidâtes /di.la.pi.dat/	dilapidèrent /di.la.pi.dɛʁ/
	future	dilapiderai /di.la.pi.dʁe/	dilapideras /di.la.pi.dʁa/	dilapidera /di.la.pi.dʁa/	dilapiderons /di.la.pi.dʁɔ̃/	dilapiderez /di.la.pi.dʁe/	dilapideront /di.la.pi.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dilapiderais /di.la.pi.dʁɛ/	dilapiderais /di.la.pi.dʁɛ/	dilapiderait /di.la.pi.dʁɛ/	dilapiderions /di.la.pi.də.ʁjɔ̃/	dilapideriez /di.la.pi.də.ʁje/	dilapideraient /di.la.pi.dʁɛ/
(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	dilapide /di.la.pid/	dilapides /di.la.pid/	dilapide /di.la.pid/	dilapidions /di.la.pi.djɔ̃/	dilapidiez /di.la.pi.dje/	dilapident /di.la.pid/
	imperfect2	dilapidasse /di.la.pi.das/	dilapidasses /di.la.pi.das/	dilapidât /di.la.pi.da/	dilapidassions /di.la.pi.da.sjɔ̃/	dilapidassiez /di.la.pi.da.sje/	dilapidassent /di.la.pi.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dilapide /di.la.pid/	—	dilapidons /di.la.pi.dɔ̃/	dilapidez /di.la.pi.de/	—
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).

Related terms

• lapider

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

dīlapider

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dīlapidō