usurper

English

Etymology

From Middle English usurper, usurpour, usurpur, from Middle French usurpeur; equivalent to usurp +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juˈsɜɹpə(ɹ)/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)

Noun

usurper (plural usurpers)

1. One who usurps.

   Synonym: usurpator

   • 2014 September 15, Martin Gayford, “There's more to Ming than a vase [print version: 16 August 2014, pp. R6–R7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1]:

     The fact that the Yongle emperor was therefore a usurper, regicide and nepoticide (nephew-killer) made compiling the Veritable Record – or official history – of his reign a most dangerous scholarly post. The official given this ticklish task managed to survive several drafts, finally producing one that pleased his master as it omitted the dead nephew's reign altogether.

Derived terms

• usurpress

Translations

one who usurps

• Arabic: غَاصِب m (ḡāṣib), مُبْتَزّ m (mubtazz), مُغْتَصِب m (muḡtaṣib), مُنْتَزِع m (muntaziʕ)
• Armenian: ուզուրպատոր (hy) (uzurpator)
• Belarusian: узурпа́тар m (uzurpátar)
• Bulgarian: узурпа́тор (bg) m (uzurpátor)
• Catalan: usurpador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 僭主 (zh) (jiànzhǔ), 篡位者 (cuànwèizhě), 篡奪者／篡夺者 (cuànduózhě), 篡權者／篡权者 (cuànquánzhě)

• Czech: uzurpátor m, uchvatitel m
• Danish: tronraner c (of a throne), usurpator (da) c
• Dutch: usurpator (nl) m, machtsovernemer m
• Estonian: usurpaator
• Finnish: vallananastaja (fi), usurpaattori (fi)
• French: usurpateur (fr) m, usurpatrice (fr) f
• Galician: usurpador (gl) m
• Georgian: უზურპატორი (ka) (uzurṗaṭori)
• German: Usurpator (de) m, Usurpatorin (de) f
• Greek: σφετεριστής (el) m (sfeteristís)
• Hungarian: bitorló (hu)
• Icelandic: valdaræningi m
• Ido: uzurpero (io), uzurpinto (io), uzurpanto (io)
• Irish: anlaith m, forghabhálaí m, forlámhaí m
• Italian: usurpatore (it) m, usurpatrice f
• Japanese: 簒奪者 (さんだつしゃ, sandatsusha)
• Korean: 횡령자(橫領者) (hoengnyeongja), 찬탈자(簒奪者) (chantalja)
• Latvian: uzurpators m
• Lithuanian: uzurpatorius m
• Macedonian: узурпа́тор m (uzurpátor)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: usurpator m

• Polish: uzurpator (pl) m
• Portuguese: usurpador (pt) m
• Romanian: uzurpator (ro) m
• Russian: узурпа́тор (ru) m (uzurpátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: узу̀рпа̄тор m

  Roman: uzùrpātor (sh) m

• Slovak: uzurpátor m
• Slovene: uzurpator m
• Spanish: usurpador (es) m
• Swedish: usurpator (sv) c, kuppmakare (sv) c
• Tagalog: manggagaga, mangangangka
• Turkish: gaspçı
• Ukrainian: узурпа́тор m (uzurpátor)
• Uzbek: uzurpator (uz)
• Yiddish: אוזורפּאַטאָר m (uzurpator)

Anagrams

• pursuer

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ūsūrpō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.zyʁ.pe/

• Audio

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Verb

usurper

1. to usurp

Conjugation

Conjugation of usurper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	usurper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	usurpant /y.zyʁ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		usurpé /y.zyʁ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	usurpe /y.zyʁp/	usurpes /y.zyʁp/	usurpe /y.zyʁp/	usurpons /y.zyʁ.pɔ̃/	usurpez /y.zyʁ.pe/	usurpent /y.zyʁp/
	imperfect	usurpais /y.zyʁ.pɛ/	usurpais /y.zyʁ.pɛ/	usurpait /y.zyʁ.pɛ/	usurpions /y.zyʁ.pjɔ̃/	usurpiez /y.zyʁ.pje/	usurpaient /y.zyʁ.pɛ/
	past historic2	usurpai /y.zyʁ.pe/	usurpas /y.zyʁ.pa/	usurpa /y.zyʁ.pa/	usurpâmes /y.zyʁ.pam/	usurpâtes /y.zyʁ.pat/	usurpèrent /y.zyʁ.pɛʁ/
	future	usurperai /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁe/	usurperas /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁa/	usurpera /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁa/	usurperons /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁɔ̃/	usurperez /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁe/	usurperont /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	usurperais /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁɛ/	usurperais /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁɛ/	usurperait /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁɛ/	usurperions /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	usurperiez /y.zyʁ.pə.ʁje/	usurperaient /y.zyʁ.pə.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	usurpe /y.zyʁp/	usurpes /y.zyʁp/	usurpe /y.zyʁp/	usurpions /y.zyʁ.pjɔ̃/	usurpiez /y.zyʁ.pje/	usurpent /y.zyʁp/
	imperfect2	usurpasse /y.zyʁ.pas/	usurpasses /y.zyʁ.pas/	usurpât /y.zyʁ.pa/	usurpassions /y.zyʁ.pa.sjɔ̃/	usurpassiez /y.zyʁ.pa.sje/	usurpassent /y.zyʁ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	usurpe /y.zyʁp/	—	usurpons /y.zyʁ.pɔ̃/	usurpez /y.zyʁ.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).

Related terms

• usurpateur
• usurpation

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /uːˈsuːr.per/, [uːˈs̠uːrpɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /uˈsur.per/, [uˈs̬urper]

Verb

ūsūrper

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ūsūrpō