infecter

See also: infector and înfecter

English

Alternative forms

• infector

Etymology

infect +‎ -er

Noun

infecter (plural infecters)

1. One who, or that which, infects.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for infecter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• frenetic, reinfect

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French

Etymology

From Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɛk.te/

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Verb

infecter

1. to infect

Conjugation

Conjugation of infecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	infecter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	infectant /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		infecté /ɛ̃.fɛk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	infecte /ɛ̃.fɛkt/	infectes /ɛ̃.fɛkt/	infecte /ɛ̃.fɛkt/	infectons /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɔ̃/	infectez /ɛ̃.fɛk.te/	infectent /ɛ̃.fɛkt/
	imperfect	infectais /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɛ/	infectais /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɛ/	infectait /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɛ/	infections /ɛ̃.fɛk.tjɔ̃/	infectiez /ɛ̃.fɛk.tje/	infectaient /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɛ/
	past historic2	infectai /ɛ̃.fɛk.te/	infectas /ɛ̃.fɛk.ta/	infecta /ɛ̃.fɛk.ta/	infectâmes /ɛ̃.fɛk.tam/	infectâtes /ɛ̃.fɛk.tat/	infectèrent /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɛʁ/
	future	infecterai /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁe/	infecteras /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁa/	infectera /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁa/	infecterons /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/	infecterez /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁe/	infecteront /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	infecterais /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	infecterais /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	infecterait /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	infecterions /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	infecteriez /ɛ̃.fɛk.tə.ʁje/	infecteraient /ɛ̃.fɛk.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	infecte /ɛ̃.fɛkt/	infectes /ɛ̃.fɛkt/	infecte /ɛ̃.fɛkt/	infections /ɛ̃.fɛk.tjɔ̃/	infectiez /ɛ̃.fɛk.tje/	infectent /ɛ̃.fɛkt/
	imperfect2	infectasse /ɛ̃.fɛk.tas/	infectasses /ɛ̃.fɛk.tas/	infectât /ɛ̃.fɛk.ta/	infectassions /ɛ̃.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/	infectassiez /ɛ̃.fɛk.ta.sje/	infectassent /ɛ̃.fɛk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	infecte /ɛ̃.fɛkt/	—	infectons /ɛ̃.fɛk.tɔ̃/	infectez /ɛ̃.fɛk.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 only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• infection

Further reading

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