trespasser
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]trespasser (plural trespassers)
- One who trespasses; an interloper.
- 1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:
- Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 16:
- The human is a land animal, not an aquatic one, and he is therefore a trespasser in the water.
Translations
[edit]a person who trespasses
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Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First known attestation 1100, from tres- + passer,[1] from Latin trans and passus (noun) (Vulgar Latin passō (verb)).
Verb
[edit]trespasser
- to traverse, to go through
- 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:
- France trespassent et entrent en Berri
- They went through France and went into Berri
- to travel; to go to
- c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
- Pluisor qui s'an sont escapé
Sont vers Escoce trespassé.- Several of those who escaped
Travelled to Scotland.
- Several of those who escaped
Conjugation
[edit]This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of trespasser (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Etymology and history of “trépasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -er
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Crime
- en:People
- Old French terms prefixed with tres-
- Old French lemmas
- Old French verbs
- Old French terms with quotations
- Old French verbs with weak-a preterite
- Old French first group verbs
- Old French verbs ending in -er