conter

Inherited from Old French conter, from Latin computāre. Doublet of compter and computer. Semantical shift from "count" to "recount" via the notion of "enumerate facts, go through facts"; compare the same in English tell.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.te/

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• Homophones: comptai, compté, comptée, comptées, compter, comptés, comptez, comté, comtés, contai, conté, contée, contées, contés, contez

conter

1. to recount (tell a story)

• conter fleurette
• raconter

• compter

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

• contre, contré
• cornet

From Old Galician-Portuguese contẽer, from Latin continēre, present active infinitive of contineō (“I contain”).

conter (first-person singular present conteño, first-person singular preterite contiven, past participle contido)
conter (first-person singular present contenho, first-person singular preterite contivem or contive, past participle contido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to contain

• (Anglo-Norman) cunter

From Latin computāre, present active infinitive of computō (“compute”).

conter

1. to tell; to say
2. to recount (tell a story)
3. to add up (count)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: compter
  • French: conter, compter

From Old Galician-Portuguese contẽer, from Latin continēre.

• Hyphenation: con‧ter

conter (first-person singular present contenho, first-person singular preterite contive, past participle contido)

1. to contain, hold, carry
2. to include

For quotations using this term, see Citations:conter.

• continente
• continência
• contenças
• conteúdo
• ter

From Old French conter, from Latin computō, computare (“compute”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ˈte/

conter

1. to count