éclore
French
Etymology
From Old French esclore, from Vulgar Latin *exclaudere, as a variant of Latin exclūdere, present active infinitive of exclūdō (“I shut out exclude; drive out, press, thrust out; hatch”), based on claudō, claudere; equivalent to é- + clore. Doublet of the borrowing exclure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.klɔʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file)
Verb
éclore
- to hatch (for an egg)
- to bloom (for a flower)
- 1900, Paul Delmet, Chansons tendres, page 309, Envoi de Fleurs
- Pour vous obliger de penser à moi,
D'y penser souvent, d'y penser encore,
Voici quelques fleurs, bien modeste envoi,
De très humbles fleurs qui viennent d'éclore.- To help you to think of me,
To think of me often, to think of me once more,
Here are some flowers, a real modest gift,
Some very humble flowers that have just begun to bloom.
- To help you to think of me,
- 1900, Paul Delmet, Chansons tendres, page 309, Envoi de Fleurs
- (figuratively) to hatch (to start, to begin existence)
Conjugation
This verb is not conjugated in certain tenses.
Conjugation of éclore (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | éclore | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | éclosant /e.klo.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | éclos /e.klo/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | éclos /e.klo/ | éclos /e.klo/ | éclôt /e.klo/ | éclosons /e.klo.zɔ̃/ | éclosez /e.klo.ze/ | éclosent /e.kloz/ |
| imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| past historic2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| future | éclorai /e.klɔ.ʁe/ | écloras /e.klɔ.ʁa/ | éclora /e.klɔ.ʁa/ | éclorons /e.klɔ.ʁɔ̃/ | éclorez /e.klɔ.ʁe/ | écloront /e.klɔ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | éclorais /e.klɔ.ʁɛ/ | éclorais /e.klɔ.ʁɛ/ | éclorait /e.klɔ.ʁɛ/ | éclorions /e.klɔ.ʁjɔ̃/ | écloriez /e.klɔ.ʁje/ | écloraient /e.klɔ.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 | éclose /e.kloz/ | écloses /e.kloz/ | éclose /e.kloz/ | éclosions /e.klo.zjɔ̃/ | éclosiez /e.klo.zje/ | éclosent /e.kloz/ |
| imperfect2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | éclos /e.klo/ | — | éclosons /e.klo.zɔ̃/ | éclosez /e.klo.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- éclosion
Related terms
- clore
- déclore
Further reading
- “éclore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- colère, créole