laurer

French

Etymology

From Latin laurus +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔ.ʁe/, /lo.ʁe/

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• Homophones: laurai, lauré, laurée, laurées, laurés, laurez

Verb

laurer

1. to crown, or decorate, with laurels

Conjugation

Conjugation of laurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	laurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	laurant /lɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lauré /lɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	laure /lɔʁ/	laures /lɔʁ/	laure /lɔʁ/	laurons /lɔ.ʁɔ̃/	laurez /lɔ.ʁe/	laurent /lɔʁ/
	imperfect	laurais /lɔ.ʁɛ/	laurais /lɔ.ʁɛ/	laurait /lɔ.ʁɛ/	laurions /lɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	lauriez /lɔ.ʁje/	lauraient /lɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	laurai /lɔ.ʁe/	lauras /lɔ.ʁa/	laura /lɔ.ʁa/	laurâmes /lɔ.ʁam/	laurâtes /lɔ.ʁat/	laurèrent /lɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	laurerai /lɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	laureras /lɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	laurera /lɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	laurerons /lɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	laurerez /lɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	laureront /lɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	laurerais /lɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	laurerais /lɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	laurerait /lɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	laurerions /lɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	laureriez /lɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	laureraient /lɔ.ʁə.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	laure /lɔʁ/	laures /lɔʁ/	laure /lɔʁ/	laurions /lɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	lauriez /lɔ.ʁje/	laurent /lɔʁ/
	imperfect2	laurasse /lɔ.ʁas/	laurasses /lɔ.ʁas/	laurât /lɔ.ʁa/	laurassions /lɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	laurassiez /lɔ.ʁa.sje/	laurassent /lɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	laure /lɔʁ/	—	laurons /lɔ.ʁɔ̃/	laurez /lɔ.ʁe/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• rural, leurra

Middle English

Alternative forms

• laurear, laurere, lawrer, laurier, lorer, lorere, lorier, lorrer, lorrere, loryere, loryȝer
• (with /l/) laureal, laureall, laurealle, laurel, laurell, laureol, laureole, laurial, laurialle, lauryel, lawriall, lorel, lorell, lorelle, loryel

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lorer (Old French lorier), from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus, which forms with /au̯/ are influenced by.

Forms with final /l/ are presumably due to a combination of dissimilation (as in marble, variant of marbre) and the influence of laureola, but are often reshaped after the suffix -(i)al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lau̯ˈreːr/, /ˈlau̯rər/, /lɔ-/
• (with /l/) IPA^(key): /lau̯ˈrɛl/, /ˈlau̯rɛl/, /lɔ-/, /-ial/

Noun

laurer (plural laurers)

1. laurel
   • Circa 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite, lines 44-45

     With his tryumphe and laurer-corouned thus,

     In al the flour of Fortunes yevynge

Descendants

• English: laurel
• Scots: laurie

Further reading

• “laurel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “laurer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.