libeller
English
Etymology
libel + -er
Noun
libeller (plural libellers)
- One who libels.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 12:
- He always contrived to sit next the door, to which he paid more attention than to his hearer; his eye always wandering to it as if he meditated an escape, and yet this man was the most audacious libeller of his time.
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Alternative forms
- libeler
Translations
one who libels
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French
Pronunciation
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Verb
libeller
- (transitive) to write; make out; write out (a check)
- (transitive) to price; price up (a product)
Conjugation
Conjugation of libeller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | libeller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | libellant /li.bɛ.lɑ̃/ or /li.be.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | libellé /li.bɛ.le/ or /li.be.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | libelle /li.bɛl/ | libelles /li.bɛl/ | libelle /li.bɛl/ | libellons /li.bɛ.lɔ̃/ or /li.be.lɔ̃/ | libellez /li.bɛ.le/ or /li.be.le/ | libellent /li.bɛl/ |
| imperfect | libellais /li.bɛ.lɛ/ or /li.be.lɛ/ | libellais /li.bɛ.lɛ/ or /li.be.lɛ/ | libellait /li.bɛ.lɛ/ or /li.be.lɛ/ | libellions /li.bɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /li.be.ljɔ̃/ | libelliez /li.bɛ.lje/ or /li.be.lje/ | libellaient /li.bɛ.lɛ/ or /li.be.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | libellai /li.bɛ.le/ or /li.be.le/ | libellas /li.bɛ.la/ or /li.be.la/ | libella /li.bɛ.la/ or /li.be.la/ | libellâmes /li.bɛ.lam/ or /li.be.lam/ | libellâtes /li.bɛ.lat/ or /li.be.lat/ | libellèrent /li.bɛ.lɛʁ/ or /li.be.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | libellerai /li.bɛl.ʁe/ | libelleras /li.bɛl.ʁa/ | libellera /li.bɛl.ʁa/ | libellerons /li.bɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | libellerez /li.bɛl.ʁe/ | libelleront /li.bɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | libellerais /li.bɛl.ʁɛ/ | libellerais /li.bɛl.ʁɛ/ | libellerait /li.bɛl.ʁɛ/ | libellerions /li.bɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /li.be.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | libelleriez /li.bɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /li.be.lə.ʁje/ | libelleraient /li.bɛl.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 | libelle /li.bɛl/ | libelles /li.bɛl/ | libelle /li.bɛl/ | libellions /li.bɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /li.be.ljɔ̃/ | libelliez /li.bɛ.lje/ or /li.be.lje/ | libellent /li.bɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | libellasse /li.bɛ.las/ or /li.be.las/ | libellasses /li.bɛ.las/ or /li.be.las/ | libellât /li.bɛ.la/ or /li.be.la/ | libellassions /li.bɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /li.be.la.sjɔ̃/ | libellassiez /li.bɛ.la.sje/ or /li.be.la.sje/ | libellassent /li.bɛ.las/ or /li.be.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | libelle /li.bɛl/ | — | libellons /li.bɛ.lɔ̃/ or /li.be.lɔ̃/ | libellez /li.bɛ.le/ or /li.be.le/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “libeller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.