lanciner

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lancināre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.si.ne/

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Verb

lanciner

1. to inflict a sharp pain
2. (figurative) to torment, to trouble
   • 1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l'assassin:

     Et moi, j’aurai été un écrivain de génie, universellement admiré, j’aurai reçu le prix Nobel de littérature, tout ça pour qu’un blanc-bec vienne me lanciner de questions quasi tautologiques, auxquelles le dernier des imbéciles fournirait une réponse identique à la mienne !

     And I will have become a literary genius, universally admired, I will have been given the Nobel Prize in Literature, all for some greenhorn to come and torment me with almost tautological questions to which any idiot would give exactly the same answer as me!

Conjugation

Conjugation of lanciner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lanciner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lancinant /lɑ̃.si.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lanciné /lɑ̃.si.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lancine /lɑ̃.sin/	lancines /lɑ̃.sin/	lancine /lɑ̃.sin/	lancinons /lɑ̃.si.nɔ̃/	lancinez /lɑ̃.si.ne/	lancinent /lɑ̃.sin/
	imperfect	lancinais /lɑ̃.si.nɛ/	lancinais /lɑ̃.si.nɛ/	lancinait /lɑ̃.si.nɛ/	lancinions /lɑ̃.si.njɔ̃/	lanciniez /lɑ̃.si.nje/	lancinaient /lɑ̃.si.nɛ/
	past historic2	lancinai /lɑ̃.si.ne/	lancinas /lɑ̃.si.na/	lancina /lɑ̃.si.na/	lancinâmes /lɑ̃.si.nam/	lancinâtes /lɑ̃.si.nat/	lancinèrent /lɑ̃.si.nɛʁ/
	future	lancinerai /lɑ̃.sin.ʁe/	lancineras /lɑ̃.sin.ʁa/	lancinera /lɑ̃.sin.ʁa/	lancinerons /lɑ̃.sin.ʁɔ̃/	lancinerez /lɑ̃.sin.ʁe/	lancineront /lɑ̃.sin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lancinerais /lɑ̃.sin.ʁɛ/	lancinerais /lɑ̃.sin.ʁɛ/	lancinerait /lɑ̃.sin.ʁɛ/	lancinerions /lɑ̃.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	lancineriez /lɑ̃.si.nə.ʁje/	lancineraient /lɑ̃.sin.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	lancine /lɑ̃.sin/	lancines /lɑ̃.sin/	lancine /lɑ̃.sin/	lancinions /lɑ̃.si.njɔ̃/	lanciniez /lɑ̃.si.nje/	lancinent /lɑ̃.sin/
	imperfect2	lancinasse /lɑ̃.si.nas/	lancinasses /lɑ̃.si.nas/	lancinât /lɑ̃.si.na/	lancinassions /lɑ̃.si.na.sjɔ̃/	lancinassiez /lɑ̃.si.na.sje/	lancinassent /lɑ̃.si.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lancine /lɑ̃.sin/	—	lancinons /lɑ̃.si.nɔ̃/	lancinez /lɑ̃.si.ne/	—
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

• lancinant
• lancinement

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

lanciner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lancinō