insulter

English

Etymology

From insult +‎ -er.

Noun

insulter (plural insulters)

1. Someone who insults.

Translations

one who insults

• Italian: insultatore
• Portuguese: insultador (pt)

Anagrams

• lustrine, lutrines

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnsultāre. Morphologically, from insulte +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.syl.te/

• Audio (France):

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• Homophones: insulté, insultée, insultées, insultés, insultez

Verb

insulter

1. to insult

Conjugation

Conjugation of insulter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	insulter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	insultant /ɛ̃.syl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		insulté /ɛ̃.syl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	insulte /ɛ̃.sylt/	insultes /ɛ̃.sylt/	insulte /ɛ̃.sylt/	insultons /ɛ̃.syl.tɔ̃/	insultez /ɛ̃.syl.te/	insultent /ɛ̃.sylt/
	imperfect	insultais /ɛ̃.syl.tɛ/	insultais /ɛ̃.syl.tɛ/	insultait /ɛ̃.syl.tɛ/	insultions /ɛ̃.syl.tjɔ̃/	insultiez /ɛ̃.syl.tje/	insultaient /ɛ̃.syl.tɛ/
	past historic2	insultai /ɛ̃.syl.te/	insultas /ɛ̃.syl.ta/	insulta /ɛ̃.syl.ta/	insultâmes /ɛ̃.syl.tam/	insultâtes /ɛ̃.syl.tat/	insultèrent /ɛ̃.syl.tɛʁ/
	future	insulterai /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁe/	insulteras /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁa/	insultera /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁa/	insulterons /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	insulterez /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁe/	insulteront /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	insulterais /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/	insulterais /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/	insulterait /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁɛ/	insulterions /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	insulteriez /ɛ̃.syl.tə.ʁje/	insulteraient /ɛ̃.syl.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	insulte /ɛ̃.sylt/	insultes /ɛ̃.sylt/	insulte /ɛ̃.sylt/	insultions /ɛ̃.syl.tjɔ̃/	insultiez /ɛ̃.syl.tje/	insultent /ɛ̃.sylt/
	imperfect2	insultasse /ɛ̃.syl.tas/	insultasses /ɛ̃.syl.tas/	insultât /ɛ̃.syl.ta/	insultassions /ɛ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃/	insultassiez /ɛ̃.syl.ta.sje/	insultassent /ɛ̃.syl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	insulte /ɛ̃.sylt/	—	insultons /ɛ̃.syl.tɔ̃/	insultez /ɛ̃.syl.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants

• → Romanian: insulta

Further reading

• “insulter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈsul.ter/, [ĩːˈs̠ʊɫ̪t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈsul.ter/, [inˈsul̪t̪er]

Verb

īnsulter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnsultō