lacer

English

Etymology

From lace +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪs.ə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
• Homophone: laser (Etymology 2)

Noun

lacer (plural lacers)

1. A person or thing that laces.

Translations

one who laces

Ottoman Turkish: اویاجی (oyacı) Turkish: oyacı (tr)

Anagrams

• Carle, 'clare, Clare, Clear, Caler, Carel, carle, recal, clear

French

Etymology

See lacs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.se/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Switzerland):

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• Homophone: lasser

Verb

lacer

1. to lace, to lace up

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

infinitive	simple	lacer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	laçant /la.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lacé /la.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lace /las/	laces /las/	lace /las/	laçons /la.sɔ̃/	lacez /la.se/	lacent /las/
	imperfect	laçais /la.sɛ/	laçais /la.sɛ/	laçait /la.sɛ/	lacions /la.sjɔ̃/	laciez /la.sje/	laçaient /la.sɛ/
	past historic2	laçai /la.se/	laças /la.sa/	laça /la.sa/	laçâmes /la.sam/	laçâtes /la.sat/	lacèrent /la.sɛʁ/
	future	lacerai /la.sʁe/	laceras /la.sʁa/	lacera /la.sʁa/	lacerons /la.sʁɔ̃/	lacerez /la.sʁe/	laceront /la.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lacerais /la.sʁɛ/	lacerais /la.sʁɛ/	lacerait /la.sʁɛ/	lacerions /la.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	laceriez /la.sə.ʁje/	laceraient /la.sʁɛ/
(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	lace /las/	laces /las/	lace /las/	lacions /la.sjɔ̃/	laciez /la.sje/	lacent /las/
	imperfect2	laçasse /la.sas/	laçasses /la.sas/	laçât /la.sa/	laçassions /la.sa.sjɔ̃/	laçassiez /la.sa.sje/	laçassent /la.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lace /las/	—	laçons /la.sɔ̃/	lacez /la.se/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Conjugation of lacer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

Related terms

• lacs
• lacet

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• caler, racle, raclé