ceindre

From Old French ceindre, from Latin cingere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃dʁ/

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ceindre

1. (transitive) to gird, put on (clothes, which fit around a part of the body)
   • 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 2, scene 5:

     Que je souffre à mes yeux qu’on ceigne une autre tête / Des lauriers immortels que la gloire m’apprête

     How could I suffer that, before my eyes, another head is girdled / With the immortal laurels for which glory has readied me

2. (transitive) to wrap round
3. (figuratively) to don (an item of ceremonious clothing)

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

• ceindre l’écharpe
• ceindre la tiare

• ceinture
• enceindre

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

From Latin cingere, present active infinitive of cingō.

ceindre

1. (transitive) to put on (clothes, which fit around a part of the body; a sword)
2. (transitive) to wrap round
3. (figuratively) to don (an item of ceremonious clothing)

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• ceinture
• enceindre

• French: ceindre

• “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 150
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (ceindre, supplement)