thésauriser
French
Etymology
From Late Latin thesaurizō, from Ancient Greek θησαυρίζω (thēsaurízō, “I store, treasure up”), from θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “store-room, treasure, granary, strong-box”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te.zɔ.ʁi.ze/
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Verb
thésauriser
- (money) to hoard
- 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 158; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:
- Craignant de se trahir en investissant sur place, ils thésaurisaient, dirigeant l'excédant de leur revenu sur les banques étrangères, ou le jouaient, toutes portes closes, à des taux fabuleux.
- — Fearing betrayal if they invested it locally, they hoarded their money, sending their excess income to foreign banks, or playing behind closed doors for fantastic stakes.
- 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 158; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:
Conjugation
Conjugation of thésauriser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | thésauriser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | thésaurisant /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | thésaurisé /te.zɔ.ʁi.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | thésaurise /te.zɔ.ʁiz/ | thésaurises /te.zɔ.ʁiz/ | thésaurise /te.zɔ.ʁiz/ | thésaurisons /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/ | thésaurisez /te.zɔ.ʁi.ze/ | thésaurisent /te.zɔ.ʁiz/ |
| imperfect | thésaurisais /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɛ/ | thésaurisais /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɛ/ | thésaurisait /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɛ/ | thésaurisions /te.zɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/ | thésaurisiez /te.zɔ.ʁi.zje/ | thésaurisaient /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | thésaurisai /te.zɔ.ʁi.ze/ | thésaurisas /te.zɔ.ʁi.za/ | thésaurisa /te.zɔ.ʁi.za/ | thésaurisâmes /te.zɔ.ʁi.zam/ | thésaurisâtes /te.zɔ.ʁi.zat/ | thésaurisèrent /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | thésauriserai /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/ | thésauriseras /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/ | thésaurisera /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/ | thésauriserons /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ | thésauriserez /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/ | thésauriseront /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | thésauriserais /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ | thésauriserais /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ | thésauriserait /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ | thésauriserions /te.zɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ | thésauriseriez /te.zɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁje/ | thésauriseraient /te.zɔ.ʁiz.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 | thésaurise /te.zɔ.ʁiz/ | thésaurises /te.zɔ.ʁiz/ | thésaurise /te.zɔ.ʁiz/ | thésaurisions /te.zɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/ | thésaurisiez /te.zɔ.ʁi.zje/ | thésaurisent /te.zɔ.ʁiz/ |
| imperfect2 | thésaurisasse /te.zɔ.ʁi.zas/ | thésaurisasses /te.zɔ.ʁi.zas/ | thésaurisât /te.zɔ.ʁi.za/ | thésaurisassions /te.zɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/ | thésaurisassiez /te.zɔ.ʁi.za.sje/ | thésaurisassent /te.zɔ.ʁi.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | thésaurise /te.zɔ.ʁiz/ | — | thésaurisons /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/ | thésaurisez /te.zɔ.ʁi.ze/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- thésaurisation
- trésor
References
- “thésauriser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Bratchet, A. (1873), “thésauriser”, in , Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
Further reading
- “thésauriser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.