trucider

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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

trucīder

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of trucīdō