trucider

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French

FWOTD – 8 November 2021

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin trucīdāre (“to slice the throat, to massacre”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁy.si.de/
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Verb

trucider

  1. (informal) to kill, slay, murder
    Synonyms: buter, descendre, occire, refroidir, saigner, zigouiller
    Il a trucidé une douzaine de personnes dans le village avant de retourner l’arme contre lui-même.
    He killed a dozen people in the village before turning the weapon against himself.
    • 2008, Chrystine Brouillet, Silence de mort, page 190:
      — C’est peut-être Antoine qui s’en est chargé ? Qui l’a fait trucider ?
      "Perhaps it was Antoine who took care of him – got him killed?"

Conjugation

Conjugation of trucider (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple trucider
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple trucidant
/tʁy.si.dɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle trucidé
/tʁy.si.de/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present trucide
/tʁy.sid/ 		trucides
/tʁy.sid/ 		trucide
/tʁy.sid/ 		trucidons
/tʁy.si.dɔ̃/ 		trucidez
/tʁy.si.de/ 		trucident
/tʁy.sid/
imperfect trucidais
/tʁy.si.dɛ/ 		trucidais
/tʁy.si.dɛ/ 		trucidait
/tʁy.si.dɛ/ 		trucidions
/tʁy.si.djɔ̃/ 		trucidiez
/tʁy.si.dje/ 		trucidaient
/tʁy.si.dɛ/
past historic2 trucidai
/tʁy.si.de/ 		trucidas
/tʁy.si.da/ 		trucida
/tʁy.si.da/ 		trucidâmes
/tʁy.si.dam/ 		trucidâtes
/tʁy.si.dat/ 		trucidèrent
/tʁy.si.dɛʁ/
future truciderai
/tʁy.si.dʁe/ 		trucideras
/tʁy.si.dʁa/ 		trucidera
/tʁy.si.dʁa/ 		truciderons
/tʁy.si.dʁɔ̃/ 		truciderez
/tʁy.si.dʁe/ 		trucideront
/tʁy.si.dʁɔ̃/
conditional truciderais
/tʁy.si.dʁɛ/ 		truciderais
/tʁy.si.dʁɛ/ 		truciderait
/tʁy.si.dʁɛ/ 		truciderions
/tʁy.si.də.ʁjɔ̃/ 		trucideriez
/tʁy.si.də.ʁje/ 		trucideraient
/tʁy.si.dʁɛ/
(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 trucide
/tʁy.sid/ 		trucides
/tʁy.sid/ 		trucide
/tʁy.sid/ 		trucidions
/tʁy.si.djɔ̃/ 		trucidiez
/tʁy.si.dje/ 		trucident
/tʁy.sid/
imperfect2 trucidasse
/tʁy.si.das/ 		trucidasses
/tʁy.si.das/ 		trucidât
/tʁy.si.da/ 		trucidassions
/tʁy.si.da.sjɔ̃/ 		trucidassiez
/tʁy.si.da.sje/ 		trucidassent
/tʁy.si.das/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — trucide
/tʁy.sid/ 		— trucidons
/tʁy.si.dɔ̃/ 		trucidez
/tʁy.si.de/ 		—
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

Latin

Verb

trucīder

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of trucīdō
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