ôter
See also: oter, oster, and -oter
French
Etymology
From Middle French and Old French oster, from Latin obstāre, present active infinitive of obstō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.te/
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Verb
ôter
- to take away, remove
- to take off, remove (clothes, etc.)
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
- Le guichetier de garde vient d’entrer dans mon cachot, il a ôté sa casquette, m’a salué, s’est excusé de me déranger et m’a demandé, en adoucissant de son mieux sa rude voix, ce que je désirais à déjeuner.
- The duty hatchman just came into my cell, took off his cap, gave me a salute, said he was sorry for bothering me and asked me, whispering as best he could with his rough voice, what I wanted for lunch.
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
- to remove, cut (text etc.); to take away (in arithmetic)
- to take (something) away from someone; to deprive
- 1640, Pierre Corneille, “Act I, Scene 2”, in Horace:
- La guerre […] / Nous ôta tout
- The war […] / deprived us of everything
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- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to move oneself, get out of the way
Conjugation
Conjugation of ôter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ôter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ôtant /o.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ôté /o.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ôte /ot/ | ôtes /ot/ | ôte /ot/ | ôtons /o.tɔ̃/ | ôtez /o.te/ | ôtent /ot/ |
| imperfect | ôtais /o.tɛ/ | ôtais /o.tɛ/ | ôtait /o.tɛ/ | ôtions /o.tjɔ̃/ | ôtiez /o.tje/ | ôtaient /o.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ôtai /o.te/ | ôtas /o.ta/ | ôta /o.ta/ | ôtâmes /o.tam/ | ôtâtes /o.tat/ | ôtèrent /o.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | ôterai /o.tʁe/ | ôteras /o.tʁa/ | ôtera /o.tʁa/ | ôterons /o.tʁɔ̃/ | ôterez /o.tʁe/ | ôteront /o.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ôterais /o.tʁɛ/ | ôterais /o.tʁɛ/ | ôterait /o.tʁɛ/ | ôterions /o.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | ôteriez /o.tə.ʁje/ | ôteraient /o.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | ôte /ot/ | ôtes /ot/ | ôte /ot/ | ôtions /o.tjɔ̃/ | ôtiez /o.tje/ | ôtent /ot/ |
| imperfect2 | ôtasse /o.tas/ | ôtasses /o.tas/ | ôtât /o.ta/ | ôtassions /o.ta.sjɔ̃/ | ôtassiez /o.ta.sje/ | ôtassent /o.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ôte /ot/ | — | ôtons /o.tɔ̃/ | ôtez /o.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- ôter une épine du pied
Further reading
- “ôter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- rote, roté, tore
Norman
Etymology
From Old French oster, from Latin obstō, obstāre, from ob (“before, in front”) + stō, stāre (“stand”).
Verb
ôter
- (Jersey) to remove
Antonyms
- mettre (“to put”)