libeller

English

Etymology

From libel +‎ -er.

Noun

libeller (plural libellers)

1. One who libels.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 12:

     He always contrived to sit next the door, to which he paid more attention than to his hearer; his eye always wandering to it as if he meditated an escape, and yet this man was the most audacious libeller of his time.

Alternative forms

• libeler

Translations

one who libels

• Bulgarian: клеветник (bg) m (klevetnik)
• French: diffamateur (fr)

French

Etymology

From libelle +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

libeller

1. (transitive) to write; make out; write out (a check)
2. (transitive) to price; price up (a product)

Conjugation

Conjugation of libeller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	libeller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	libellant /li.bɛ.lɑ̃/ or /li.be.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		libellé /li.bɛ.le/ or /li.be.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	libelle /li.bɛl/	libelles /li.bɛl/	libelle /li.bɛl/	libellons /li.bɛ.lɔ̃/ or /li.be.lɔ̃/	libellez /li.bɛ.le/ or /li.be.le/	libellent /li.bɛl/
	imperfect	libellais /li.bɛ.lɛ/ or /li.be.lɛ/	libellais /li.bɛ.lɛ/ or /li.be.lɛ/	libellait /li.bɛ.lɛ/ or /li.be.lɛ/	libellions /li.bɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /li.be.ljɔ̃/	libelliez /li.bɛ.lje/ or /li.be.lje/	libellaient /li.bɛ.lɛ/ or /li.be.lɛ/
	past historic2	libellai /li.bɛ.le/ or /li.be.le/	libellas /li.bɛ.la/ or /li.be.la/	libella /li.bɛ.la/ or /li.be.la/	libellâmes /li.bɛ.lam/ or /li.be.lam/	libellâtes /li.bɛ.lat/ or /li.be.lat/	libellèrent /li.bɛ.lɛʁ/ or /li.be.lɛʁ/
	future	libellerai /li.bɛl.ʁe/	libelleras /li.bɛl.ʁa/	libellera /li.bɛl.ʁa/	libellerons /li.bɛl.ʁɔ̃/	libellerez /li.bɛl.ʁe/	libelleront /li.bɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	libellerais /li.bɛl.ʁɛ/	libellerais /li.bɛl.ʁɛ/	libellerait /li.bɛl.ʁɛ/	libellerions /li.bɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /li.be.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	libelleriez /li.bɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /li.be.lə.ʁje/	libelleraient /li.bɛl.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	libelle /li.bɛl/	libelles /li.bɛl/	libelle /li.bɛl/	libellions /li.bɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /li.be.ljɔ̃/	libelliez /li.bɛ.lje/ or /li.be.lje/	libellent /li.bɛl/
	imperfect2	libellasse /li.bɛ.las/ or /li.be.las/	libellasses /li.bɛ.las/ or /li.be.las/	libellât /li.bɛ.la/ or /li.be.la/	libellassions /li.bɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /li.be.la.sjɔ̃/	libellassiez /li.bɛ.la.sje/ or /li.be.la.sje/	libellassent /li.bɛ.las/ or /li.be.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	libelle /li.bɛl/	—	libellons /li.bɛ.lɔ̃/ or /li.be.lɔ̃/	libellez /li.bɛ.le/ or /li.be.le/	—
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

• libellé

Further reading

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