truster
English
Etymology
From trust + -er.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌstɚ/
Noun
truster (plural trusters)
- A person who trusts.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- I would not hear your enemy say so,
Nor shall you do mine ear that violence
To make it truster of your own report
Against yourself.
- 1856, Walt Whitman, “Poem of the Road” [later entitled “Song of the Open Road”] in Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860, p. 324,
- Habitues of many different countries, habitues of far-distant dwellings,
- Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,
- 1950, Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees, London: Readers Union, 1952, Chapter 7,
- Giorgio did not really like the Colonel very much, or perhaps he was simply from Piemonte and cared for no one truly; which was understandable in cold people from a border province. Borderers are not trusters and the Colonel knew about this and expected nothing from anyone that they did not have to give.
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Anagrams
- Surrett, rutters, turrets
French
Verb
truster
- To put into a trust
Conjugation
Conjugation of truster (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | truster | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trustant /tʁys.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trusté /tʁys.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | truste /tʁyst/ | trustes /tʁyst/ | truste /tʁyst/ | trustons /tʁys.tɔ̃/ | trustez /tʁys.te/ | trustent /tʁyst/ |
| imperfect | trustais /tʁys.tɛ/ | trustais /tʁys.tɛ/ | trustait /tʁys.tɛ/ | trustions /tʁys.tjɔ̃/ | trustiez /tʁys.tje/ | trustaient /tʁys.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trustai /tʁys.te/ | trustas /tʁys.ta/ | trusta /tʁys.ta/ | trustâmes /tʁys.tam/ | trustâtes /tʁys.tat/ | trustèrent /tʁys.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | trusterai /tʁys.tə.ʁe/ | trusteras /tʁys.tə.ʁa/ | trustera /tʁys.tə.ʁa/ | trusterons /tʁys.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | trusterez /tʁys.tə.ʁe/ | trusteront /tʁys.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trusterais /tʁys.tə.ʁɛ/ | trusterais /tʁys.tə.ʁɛ/ | trusterait /tʁys.tə.ʁɛ/ | trusterions /tʁys.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | trusteriez /tʁys.tə.ʁje/ | trusteraient /tʁys.tə.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 | truste /tʁyst/ | trustes /tʁyst/ | truste /tʁyst/ | trustions /tʁys.tjɔ̃/ | trustiez /tʁys.tje/ | trustent /tʁyst/ |
| imperfect2 | trustasse /tʁys.tas/ | trustasses /tʁys.tas/ | trustât /tʁys.ta/ | trustassions /tʁys.ta.sjɔ̃/ | trustassiez /tʁys.ta.sje/ | trustassent /tʁys.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | truste /tʁyst/ | — | trustons /tʁys.tɔ̃/ | trustez /tʁys.te/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
References
- “truster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.