lapider
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lapidō, lapidāre (“to stone”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
lapider
- to stone; to lapidate (pelt with stones)
- (informal, figurative) to attack verbally
- 1972, Charles Aznavour (lyrics and music), “Comme ils disent”, in Idiote, je t'aime…:
- Et là on s'en donne à cœur-joie / Et sans complexe / On déballe des vérités / Sur des gens qu'on a dans le nez / On les lapide / Mais on le fait avec humour / Enrobé dans des calembours / Mouillés d'acide
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Conjugation
Conjugation of lapider (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | lapider | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | lapidant /la.pi.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | lapidé /la.pi.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | lapide /la.pid/ | lapides /la.pid/ | lapide /la.pid/ | lapidons /la.pi.dɔ̃/ | lapidez /la.pi.de/ | lapident /la.pid/ |
| imperfect | lapidais /la.pi.dɛ/ | lapidais /la.pi.dɛ/ | lapidait /la.pi.dɛ/ | lapidions /la.pi.djɔ̃/ | lapidiez /la.pi.dje/ | lapidaient /la.pi.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | lapidai /la.pi.de/ | lapidas /la.pi.da/ | lapida /la.pi.da/ | lapidâmes /la.pi.dam/ | lapidâtes /la.pi.dat/ | lapidèrent /la.pi.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | lapiderai /la.pi.dʁe/ | lapideras /la.pi.dʁa/ | lapidera /la.pi.dʁa/ | lapiderons /la.pi.dʁɔ̃/ | lapiderez /la.pi.dʁe/ | lapideront /la.pi.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | lapiderais /la.pi.dʁɛ/ | lapiderais /la.pi.dʁɛ/ | lapiderait /la.pi.dʁɛ/ | lapiderions /la.pi.də.ʁjɔ̃/ | lapideriez /la.pi.də.ʁje/ | lapideraient /la.pi.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | lapide /la.pid/ | lapides /la.pid/ | lapide /la.pid/ | lapidions /la.pi.djɔ̃/ | lapidiez /la.pi.dje/ | lapident /la.pid/ |
| imperfect2 | lapidasse /la.pi.das/ | lapidasses /la.pi.das/ | lapidât /la.pi.da/ | lapidassions /la.pi.da.sjɔ̃/ | lapidassiez /la.pi.da.sje/ | lapidassent /la.pi.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | lapide /la.pid/ | — | lapidons /la.pi.dɔ̃/ | lapidez /la.pi.de/ | — | |
| 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
- lapidaire
- lapidation
Further reading
- “lapider”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- plaider
Latin
Verb
lapider
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lapidō
Norman
Etymology
From Latin lapidō, lapidāre (“stone”, verb).
Verb
lapider
- (Jersey) to stone, lapidate (pelt with stones)