vitrifier

French

Etymology

From Latin vitrum +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.tʁi.fje/

• Audio:

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Verb

vitrifier

1. to vitrify

   Vitrifier le sable.

   To convert sand to glass.

2. to make as solid as glass

   Je n’en ai gardé souvenir de rien de précis [de ces quelques jours passés avec Pierre Louis], mais bien seulement d’une extraordinaire ferveur, d’une joie, d’une frénésie qui m’éveillait dès l’aube, éternisait chaque instant de chaque heure, vitrifiait ou volatilisait tout ce qui s’approchait de mon cœur.

   I wouldn't dare depict any specific memory [of these few past days with Pierre Louis], but only a special fervor, a joy, a frenzy that awoke me at dawn, that dragged every moment of every hour, that vitrified, volatilized anything approaching my heart.

   (André Gide, Si le grain ne meurt, 1924)

3. to lacquer, give something a smooth, glassy finish

   Vitrifier un plancher.

   To lacquer the floor.

Conjugation

Conjugation of vitrifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vitrifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vitrifiant /vi.tʁi.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vitrifié /vi.tʁi.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/	vitrifies /vi.tʁi.fi/	vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/	vitrifions /vi.tʁi.fjɔ̃/	vitrifiez /vi.tʁi.fje/	vitrifient /vi.tʁi.fi/
	imperfect	vitrifiais /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/	vitrifiais /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/	vitrifiait /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/	vitrifiions /vi.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/	vitrifiiez /vi.tʁi.fi.je/	vitrifiaient /vi.tʁi.fjɛ/
	past historic2	vitrifiai /vi.tʁi.fje/	vitrifias /vi.tʁi.fja/	vitrifia /vi.tʁi.fja/	vitrifiâmes /vi.tʁi.fjam/	vitrifiâtes /vi.tʁi.fjat/	vitrifièrent /vi.tʁi.fjɛʁ/
	future	vitrifierai /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁe/	vitrifieras /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁa/	vitrifiera /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁa/	vitrifierons /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/	vitrifierez /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁe/	vitrifieront /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vitrifierais /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	vitrifierais /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	vitrifierait /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	vitrifierions /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	vitrifieriez /vi.tʁi.fi.ʁje/	vitrifieraient /vi.tʁi.fi.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	vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/	vitrifies /vi.tʁi.fi/	vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/	vitrifiions /vi.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/	vitrifiiez /vi.tʁi.fi.je/	vitrifient /vi.tʁi.fi/
	imperfect2	vitrifiasse /vi.tʁi.fjas/	vitrifiasses /vi.tʁi.fjas/	vitrifiât /vi.tʁi.fja/	vitrifiassions /vi.tʁi.fja.sjɔ̃/	vitrifiassiez /vi.tʁi.fja.sje/	vitrifiassent /vi.tʁi.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vitrifie /vi.tʁi.fi/	—	vitrifions /vi.tʁi.fjɔ̃/	vitrifiez /vi.tʁi.fje/	—
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

• vitrification

Descendants

• → Turkish: vitrifiye (via past participle)

Further reading

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