cotir

French

Etymology

From Middle French cotir, from Old French cotir (“to hit; strike”), from Vulgar Latin *cottire, from Ancient Greek κόπτειν (kóptein, “to abut; bump; knock; strike repeatedly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.tiʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

Verb

cotir

1. (transitive) to damage (a fruit), to bruise

   Synonyms: meurtrir, taler

2. to hit, to strike

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of cotir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cotir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cotissant /kɔ.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		coti /kɔ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cotis /kɔ.ti/	cotis /kɔ.ti/	cotit /kɔ.ti/	cotissons /kɔ.ti.sɔ̃/	cotissez /kɔ.ti.se/	cotissent /kɔ.tis/
	imperfect	cotissais /kɔ.ti.sɛ/	cotissais /kɔ.ti.sɛ/	cotissait /kɔ.ti.sɛ/	cotissions /kɔ.ti.sjɔ̃/	cotissiez /kɔ.ti.sje/	cotissaient /kɔ.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	cotis /kɔ.ti/	cotis /kɔ.ti/	cotit /kɔ.ti/	cotîmes /kɔ.tim/	cotîtes /kɔ.tit/	cotirent /kɔ.tiʁ/
	future	cotirai /kɔ.ti.ʁe/	cotiras /kɔ.ti.ʁa/	cotira /kɔ.ti.ʁa/	cotirons /kɔ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	cotirez /kɔ.ti.ʁe/	cotiront /kɔ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cotirais /kɔ.ti.ʁɛ/	cotirais /kɔ.ti.ʁɛ/	cotirait /kɔ.ti.ʁɛ/	cotirions /kɔ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	cotiriez /kɔ.ti.ʁje/	cotiraient /kɔ.ti.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	cotisse /kɔ.tis/	cotisses /kɔ.tis/	cotisse /kɔ.tis/	cotissions /kɔ.ti.sjɔ̃/	cotissiez /kɔ.ti.sje/	cotissent /kɔ.tis/
	imperfect2	cotisse /kɔ.tis/	cotisses /kɔ.tis/	cotît /kɔ.ti/	cotissions /kɔ.ti.sjɔ̃/	cotissiez /kɔ.ti.sje/	cotissent /kɔ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cotis /kɔ.ti/	—	cotissons /kɔ.ti.sɔ̃/	cotissez /kɔ.ti.se/	—
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).

Derived terms

• coti

 

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• criot, croit, croît