exhumer
English
Etymology
exhume + -er
Noun
exhumer (plural exhumers)
- One who exhumes.
- 1835, William Light, The Last Voyage, p. 346:
- […] he had also satisfied his mind that it had been done consistently with the rights of man, although neither Paine, nor the exhumer of his bones had ever ventured into his country, to instil into the ductile minds of the natives the principles of their philosophy.
- 1848, William Stirling Maxwell, Annals of the Artists of Spain, p. 992:
- Lucia del Monte, in that city he painted a picture representing Pope St. Pasquale, a great church-builder and exhumer of holy corpses.
- 1910, Polynesian Society (N.Z.), Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, p. 72:
- As each skull was taken out, the exhumer held it up to the view of the onlookers, when a wailing cry would be heard as they greeted the remains of their dead relative.
- 1996, Fritz Spiegl, Fritz Spiegl's Sick Notes, p. 137:
- Resurrectionist: […] since about 1776, an exhumer and stealer of corpses which were later (or perhaps better, sooner) sold to anatomists for dissection and research.
- 2005, J. Patrick Greene, Medieval Monasteries, p. 56:
- In the medieval period monks were enthusiastic exhumers of the mortal remains of the holiest of individuals.
- 1835, William Light, The Last Voyage, p. 346:
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin exhumō, from Latin ex- + humō (“to bury”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛɡ.zy.me/
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Verb
exhumer
- to exhume
- Coordinate term: inhumer
Conjugation
Conjugation of exhumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | exhumer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | exhumant /ɛɡ.zy.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | exhumé /ɛɡ.zy.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | exhume /ɛɡ.zym/ | exhumes /ɛɡ.zym/ | exhume /ɛɡ.zym/ | exhumons /ɛɡ.zy.mɔ̃/ | exhumez /ɛɡ.zy.me/ | exhument /ɛɡ.zym/ |
| imperfect | exhumais /ɛɡ.zy.mɛ/ | exhumais /ɛɡ.zy.mɛ/ | exhumait /ɛɡ.zy.mɛ/ | exhumions /ɛɡ.zy.mjɔ̃/ | exhumiez /ɛɡ.zy.mje/ | exhumaient /ɛɡ.zy.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | exhumai /ɛɡ.zy.me/ | exhumas /ɛɡ.zy.ma/ | exhuma /ɛɡ.zy.ma/ | exhumâmes /ɛɡ.zy.mam/ | exhumâtes /ɛɡ.zy.mat/ | exhumèrent /ɛɡ.zy.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | exhumerai /ɛɡ.zym.ʁe/ | exhumeras /ɛɡ.zym.ʁa/ | exhumera /ɛɡ.zym.ʁa/ | exhumerons /ɛɡ.zym.ʁɔ̃/ | exhumerez /ɛɡ.zym.ʁe/ | exhumeront /ɛɡ.zym.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | exhumerais /ɛɡ.zym.ʁɛ/ | exhumerais /ɛɡ.zym.ʁɛ/ | exhumerait /ɛɡ.zym.ʁɛ/ | exhumerions /ɛɡ.zy.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ | exhumeriez /ɛɡ.zy.mə.ʁje/ | exhumeraient /ɛɡ.zym.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 | exhume /ɛɡ.zym/ | exhumes /ɛɡ.zym/ | exhume /ɛɡ.zym/ | exhumions /ɛɡ.zy.mjɔ̃/ | exhumiez /ɛɡ.zy.mje/ | exhument /ɛɡ.zym/ |
| imperfect2 | exhumasse /ɛɡ.zy.mas/ | exhumasses /ɛɡ.zy.mas/ | exhumât /ɛɡ.zy.ma/ | exhumassions /ɛɡ.zy.ma.sjɔ̃/ | exhumassiez /ɛɡ.zy.ma.sje/ | exhumassent /ɛɡ.zy.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | exhume /ɛɡ.zym/ | — | exhumons /ɛɡ.zy.mɔ̃/ | exhumez /ɛɡ.zy.me/ | — | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- exhumation
Further reading
- “exhumer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.