supplicier

French

Etymology

From supplice +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

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Verb

supplicier

1. to kill by torture

   Synonym: exécuter

   Il fut supplicié en place de Grève.

   He was executed in the Place de Grève.

Conjugation

Conjugation of supplicier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	supplicier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	suppliciant /sy.pli.sjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		supplicié /sy.pli.sje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	supplicie /sy.pli.si/	supplicies /sy.pli.si/	supplicie /sy.pli.si/	supplicions /sy.pli.sjɔ̃/	suppliciez /sy.pli.sje/	supplicient /sy.pli.si/
	imperfect	suppliciais /sy.pli.sjɛ/	suppliciais /sy.pli.sjɛ/	suppliciait /sy.pli.sjɛ/	suppliciions /sy.pli.si.jɔ̃/	suppliciiez /sy.pli.si.je/	suppliciaient /sy.pli.sjɛ/
	past historic2	suppliciai /sy.pli.sje/	supplicias /sy.pli.sja/	supplicia /sy.pli.sja/	suppliciâmes /sy.pli.sjam/	suppliciâtes /sy.pli.sjat/	supplicièrent /sy.pli.sjɛʁ/
	future	supplicierai /sy.pli.si.ʁe/	supplicieras /sy.pli.si.ʁa/	suppliciera /sy.pli.si.ʁa/	supplicierons /sy.pli.si.ʁɔ̃/	supplicierez /sy.pli.si.ʁe/	supplicieront /sy.pli.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	supplicierais /sy.pli.si.ʁɛ/	supplicierais /sy.pli.si.ʁɛ/	supplicierait /sy.pli.si.ʁɛ/	supplicierions /sy.pli.si.ʁjɔ̃/	supplicieriez /sy.pli.si.ʁje/	supplicieraient /sy.pli.si.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	supplicie /sy.pli.si/	supplicies /sy.pli.si/	supplicie /sy.pli.si/	suppliciions /sy.pli.si.jɔ̃/	suppliciiez /sy.pli.si.je/	supplicient /sy.pli.si/
	imperfect2	suppliciasse /sy.pli.sjas/	suppliciasses /sy.pli.sjas/	suppliciât /sy.pli.sja/	suppliciassions /sy.pli.sja.sjɔ̃/	suppliciassiez /sy.pli.sja.sje/	suppliciassent /sy.pli.sjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	supplicie /sy.pli.si/	—	supplicions /sy.pli.sjɔ̃/	suppliciez /sy.pli.sje/	—
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

• supplicié

References

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

Further reading

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