policer

English

Etymology

From police +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈliːsə(ɹ)/

Noun

policer (plural policers)

1. One who, or that which, polices.
   • 1999, Kavita Datta, Gareth A Jones, Housing and finance in developing countries:

     […] traditional cultural notions of womanhood, with women seen as moral guardians of the household and policers of recalcitrant men.

2. (computing) A software component that enforces a security policy.

   a traffic policer; a bandwidth policer

Anagrams

• peloric

French

Etymology

police (“police”) +‎ -er (infinitive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.li.se/

  • Audio (Lyon):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: policé, policée, policées, policés

Verb

policer

1. to police

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of policer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	policer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	poliçant /pɔ.li.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		policé /pɔ.li.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	police /pɔ.lis/	polices /pɔ.lis/	police /pɔ.lis/	poliçons /pɔ.li.sɔ̃/	policez /pɔ.li.se/	policent /pɔ.lis/
	imperfect	poliçais /pɔ.li.sɛ/	poliçais /pɔ.li.sɛ/	poliçait /pɔ.li.sɛ/	policions /pɔ.li.sjɔ̃/	policiez /pɔ.li.sje/	poliçaient /pɔ.li.sɛ/
	past historic2	poliçai /pɔ.li.se/	poliças /pɔ.li.sa/	poliça /pɔ.li.sa/	poliçâmes /pɔ.li.sam/	poliçâtes /pɔ.li.sat/	policèrent /pɔ.li.sɛʁ/
	future	policerai /pɔ.li.sʁe/	policeras /pɔ.li.sʁa/	policera /pɔ.li.sʁa/	policerons /pɔ.li.sʁɔ̃/	policerez /pɔ.li.sʁe/	policeront /pɔ.li.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	policerais /pɔ.li.sʁɛ/	policerais /pɔ.li.sʁɛ/	policerait /pɔ.li.sʁɛ/	policerions /pɔ.li.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	policeriez /pɔ.li.sə.ʁje/	policeraient /pɔ.li.sʁɛ/
(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	police /pɔ.lis/	polices /pɔ.lis/	police /pɔ.lis/	policions /pɔ.li.sjɔ̃/	policiez /pɔ.li.sje/	policent /pɔ.lis/
	imperfect2	poliçasse /pɔ.li.sas/	poliçasses /pɔ.li.sas/	poliçât /pɔ.li.sa/	poliçassions /pɔ.li.sa.sjɔ̃/	poliçassiez /pɔ.li.sa.sje/	poliçassent /pɔ.li.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	police /pɔ.lis/	—	poliçons /pɔ.li.sɔ̃/	policez /pɔ.li.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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• picoler