hurter
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
hurter (plural hurters)
- One who hurts or does harm.
- 1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:
- I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.
Etymology 2
Inherited from Middle English hurtour, from Middle French hurtoir (modern French heurtoir); equivalent to hurt + -or.
Old French
Etymology
Frankish *hurton, from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”).
Verb
hurter
- to crash into; to clatter into
- c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:
- qu'ert d'antre les altres sevree,
si l'a ferue et si hurtee- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1220, Guillaume de Lorris, Le Roman de la Rose:
- Elle se rompoit et batoit
Et ses poingz ensemble hurtoit.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
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.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | hurter | avoir hurté | |||||
gerund | en hurtant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | hurtant | ||||||
past participle | hurté | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | hurt | hurtes | hurte | hurtons | hurtez | hurtent |
imperfect | hurtoie, hurteie, hurtoe, hurteve | hurtoies, hurteies, hurtoes, hurteves | hurtoit, hurteit, hurtot, hurteve | hurtiiens, hurtiens | hurtiiez, hurtiez | hurtoient, hurteient, hurtoent, hurtevent | |
preterite | hurtai | hurtas | hurta | hurtames | hurtastes | hurterent | |
future | hurterai | hurteras | hurtera | hurterons | hurteroiz, hurtereiz, hurterez | hurteront | |
conditional | hurteroie, hurtereie | hurteroies, hurtereies | hurteroit, hurtereit | hurteriiens, hurteriens | hurteriiez, hurteriez | hurteroient, hurtereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | hurt | hurz | hurt | hurtons | hurtez | hurtent |
imperfect | hurtasse | hurtasses | hurtast | hurtissons, hurtissiens | hurtissoiz, hurtissez, hurtissiez | hurtassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | hurte | — | hurtons | hurtez | — |
Descendants
- French: heurter
Further reading
- “heurter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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