distiller

English

Etymology

distill +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

distiller (plural distillers)

1. A person who distills, especially alcoholic spirits or hard liquor by a process of distillation; a person who owns, works in or operates a distillery.
2. A device or apparatus that distills, a condenser; a still.
3. A company whose business is distilling, especially one that manufactures alcoholic spirits or liquor.

Related terms

• distil, distill
• distilland
• distillate
• distillation
• distilled water
• distilling

 

Translations

a person who distills, one who owns or works in a distillery

• Catalan: destil·lador m, destil·ladora f
• Galician: destilador (gl) m
• German: Brenner (de) m, Brennerin (de) f, Branntweinbrenner (de) m, Branntweinbrennerin, Schnapsbrenner (de) m, Schnapsbrennerin (de) f
• Italian: distillatore m, distillatrice f
• Malay: penyuling
• Polish: gorzelnik m
• Swedish: destillatör c
• Volapük: (♂♀) steilan (vo), (♂) histeilan, (♀) jisteilan, (older term, obsolete) steilel

an apparatus that distills, a condenser, a still

• Esperanto: distililo
• French: alambic (fr) m
• Galician: destilador (gl) m
• German: Destillierapparat m
• Malay: penyuling
• Swedish: destillator c, destillationsapparat (sv) c
• Volapük: steilamaparat, steilaparat, steilöm

a company that distills

• Swedish: destilleri (sv) n, bränneri (sv) n

Anagrams

• redistill, ristellid

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēstillāre (“to distil, to trickle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.ti.je/, (proscribed but common) /dis.ti.le/

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Verb

distiller

1. to distill

Conjugation

Conjugation of distiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	distiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	distillant /dis.ti.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		distillé /dis.ti.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	distille /dis.tij/	distilles /dis.tij/	distille /dis.tij/	distillons /dis.ti.jɔ̃/	distillez /dis.ti.je/	distillent /dis.tij/
	imperfect	distillais /dis.ti.jɛ/	distillais /dis.ti.jɛ/	distillait /dis.ti.jɛ/	distillions /dis.tij.jɔ̃/	distilliez /dis.tij.je/	distillaient /dis.ti.jɛ/
	past historic2	distillai /dis.ti.je/	distillas /dis.ti.ja/	distilla /dis.ti.ja/	distillâmes /dis.ti.jam/	distillâtes /dis.ti.jat/	distillèrent /dis.ti.jɛʁ/
	future	distillerai /dis.tij.ʁe/	distilleras /dis.tij.ʁa/	distillera /dis.tij.ʁa/	distillerons /dis.tij.ʁɔ̃/	distillerez /dis.tij.ʁe/	distilleront /dis.tij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	distillerais /dis.tij.ʁɛ/	distillerais /dis.tij.ʁɛ/	distillerait /dis.tij.ʁɛ/	distillerions /dis.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	distilleriez /dis.ti.jə.ʁje/	distilleraient /dis.tij.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	distille /dis.tij/	distilles /dis.tij/	distille /dis.tij/	distillions /dis.tij.jɔ̃/	distilliez /dis.tij.je/	distillent /dis.tij/
	imperfect2	distillasse /dis.ti.jas/	distillasses /dis.ti.jas/	distillât /dis.ti.ja/	distillassions /dis.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/	distillassiez /dis.ti.ja.sje/	distillassent /dis.ti.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	distille /dis.tij/	—	distillons /dis.ti.jɔ̃/	distillez /dis.ti.je/	—
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

• distillation

Descendants

• → Romanian: distila

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

distīller

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of distīllō