exciper

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excipāre (infinitive excipere).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.si.pe/

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Verb

exciper

1. (law) to plea

Conjugation

Conjugation of exciper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exciper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	excipant /ɛk.si.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		excipé /ɛk.si.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	excipe /ɛk.sip/	excipes /ɛk.sip/	excipe /ɛk.sip/	excipons /ɛk.si.pɔ̃/	excipez /ɛk.si.pe/	excipent /ɛk.sip/
	imperfect	excipais /ɛk.si.pɛ/	excipais /ɛk.si.pɛ/	excipait /ɛk.si.pɛ/	excipions /ɛk.si.pjɔ̃/	excipiez /ɛk.si.pje/	excipaient /ɛk.si.pɛ/
	past historic2	excipai /ɛk.si.pe/	excipas /ɛk.si.pa/	excipa /ɛk.si.pa/	excipâmes /ɛk.si.pam/	excipâtes /ɛk.si.pat/	excipèrent /ɛk.si.pɛʁ/
	future	exciperai /ɛk.si.pʁe/	exciperas /ɛk.si.pʁa/	excipera /ɛk.si.pʁa/	exciperons /ɛk.si.pʁɔ̃/	exciperez /ɛk.si.pʁe/	exciperont /ɛk.si.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exciperais /ɛk.si.pʁɛ/	exciperais /ɛk.si.pʁɛ/	exciperait /ɛk.si.pʁɛ/	exciperions /ɛk.si.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	exciperiez /ɛk.si.pə.ʁje/	exciperaient /ɛk.si.pʁɛ/
(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	excipe /ɛk.sip/	excipes /ɛk.sip/	excipe /ɛk.sip/	excipions /ɛk.si.pjɔ̃/	excipiez /ɛk.si.pje/	excipent /ɛk.sip/
	imperfect2	excipasse /ɛk.si.pas/	excipasses /ɛk.si.pas/	excipât /ɛk.si.pa/	excipassions /ɛk.si.pa.sjɔ̃/	excipassiez /ɛk.si.pa.sje/	excipassent /ɛk.si.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	excipe /ɛk.sip/	—	excipons /ɛk.si.pɔ̃/	excipez /ɛk.si.pe/	—
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

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