vilipender
English
Etymology
Noun
vilipender (plural vilipenders)
- Someone who vilipends.
- 1894, John Swinton, Striking for Life, page 198:
- […] a Chicago daily paper which was one of the chief vilipenders of the miners on strike.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin vīlipendō, from vīlis (“vile”) and pendō (“to weigh; to consider”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.li.pɑ̃.de/
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Verb
vilipender
Conjugation
Conjugation of vilipender (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vilipender | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vilipendant /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | vilipendé /vi.li.pɑ̃.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | vilipende /vi.li.pɑ̃d/ |
vilipendes /vi.li.pɑ̃d/ |
vilipende /vi.li.pɑ̃d/ |
vilipendons /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
vilipendez /vi.li.pɑ̃.de/ |
vilipendent /vi.li.pɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect | vilipendais /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɛ/ |
vilipendais /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɛ/ |
vilipendait /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɛ/ |
vilipendions /vi.li.pɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
vilipendiez /vi.li.pɑ̃.dje/ |
vilipendaient /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vilipendai /vi.li.pɑ̃.de/ |
vilipendas /vi.li.pɑ̃.da/ |
vilipenda /vi.li.pɑ̃.da/ |
vilipendâmes /vi.li.pɑ̃.dam/ |
vilipendâtes /vi.li.pɑ̃.dat/ |
vilipendèrent /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | vilipenderai /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁe/ |
vilipenderas /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁa/ |
vilipendera /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁa/ |
vilipenderons /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
vilipenderez /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁe/ |
vilipenderont /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vilipenderais /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
vilipenderais /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
vilipenderait /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
vilipenderions /vi.li.pɑ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vilipenderiez /vi.li.pɑ̃.də.ʁje/ |
vilipenderaient /vi.li.pɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | vilipende /vi.li.pɑ̃d/ |
vilipendes /vi.li.pɑ̃d/ |
vilipende /vi.li.pɑ̃d/ |
vilipendions /vi.li.pɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
vilipendiez /vi.li.pɑ̃.dje/ |
vilipendent /vi.li.pɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect2 | vilipendasse /vi.li.pɑ̃.das/ |
vilipendasses /vi.li.pɑ̃.das/ |
vilipendât /vi.li.pɑ̃.da/ |
vilipendassions /vi.li.pɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃/ |
vilipendassiez /vi.li.pɑ̃.da.sje/ |
vilipendassent /vi.li.pɑ̃.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vilipende /vi.li.pɑ̃d/ |
— | vilipendons /vi.li.pɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
vilipendez /vi.li.pɑ̃.de/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “vilipender”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.