colporter
English
Etymology
Anglicization of colporteur, from French.
Noun
colporter (plural colporters)
- Alternative form of colporteur.
French
Etymology
From Latin comportare, from comportō (“to carry”), with a change to col- to differentiate from comporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔl.pɔʁ.te/
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Verb
colporter
- to peddle; to hawk
- (figurative, often derogatory) to spread (gossip, accusation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of colporter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | colporter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | colportant /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | colporté /kɔl.pɔʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | colporte /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colportes /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colporte /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colportons /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
colportez /kɔl.pɔʁ.te/ |
colportent /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
| imperfect | colportais /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
colportais /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
colportait /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
colportions /kɔl.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
colportiez /kɔl.pɔʁ.tje/ |
colportaient /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | colportai /kɔl.pɔʁ.te/ |
colportas /kɔl.pɔʁ.ta/ |
colporta /kɔl.pɔʁ.ta/ |
colportâmes /kɔl.pɔʁ.tam/ |
colportâtes /kɔl.pɔʁ.tat/ |
colportèrent /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | colporterai /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
colporteras /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
colportera /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
colporterons /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
colporterez /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
colporteront /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | colporterais /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
colporterais /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
colporterait /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
colporterions /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
colporteriez /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
colporteraient /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.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 | colporte /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colportes /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colporte /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colportions /kɔl.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
colportiez /kɔl.pɔʁ.tje/ |
colportent /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | colportasse /kɔl.pɔʁ.tas/ |
colportasses /kɔl.pɔʁ.tas/ |
colportât /kɔl.pɔʁ.ta/ |
colportassions /kɔl.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
colportassiez /kɔl.pɔʁ.ta.sje/ |
colportassent /kɔl.pɔʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | colporte /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
— | colportons /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
colportez /kɔl.pɔʁ.te/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- German: kolportieren
Further reading
- “colporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “comportare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 987