planter
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplæntə(ɹ)/, /ˈplɑːntə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
planter (plural planters)
- One who plants something.
- 2002, Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, page 100:
- She didn't use any magic truth serums, nor did she suggest hypnotherapy, but barring this, she personified the greatest enemy of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation — an evil planter of false memories.
- 2014, Andrea di Robilant, Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside:
- De Rocco, the compulsive rose planter, had surreptitiously placed the rose there.
- A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor.
- 2023 February 8, “Network News: News in Brief: Planters at Chelmsford”, in RAIL, number 976, page 20:
- Chelmsford station is looking smarter after the local Community Rail Partnership and Rotary Club members installed 12 large planters on the platforms.
- (historical) Any of the early English or Scottish settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
- A machine used for planting seeds.
- The owner of a plantation.
Derived terms
Translations
box or pot
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person operating a planter
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Anagrams
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
planter m (plural planters)
- nursery (place where young plants are cultivated)
- Synonym: viver
- seedling
- (figurative) breeding-ground
Derived terms
- planteraire
- planterista
Further reading
- “planter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Etymology
Back-formation from planteran.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: plan‧ter
Noun
planter
- a frameup; a false incrimination of an innocent person
Noun
planter c
Verb
planter
Etymology
From Middle Dutch planter. Equivalent to planten + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
planter m (plural planters)
- a planter, one who plants (usually plants or perhaps fungi)
- a farmer, a tiller; in particular the owner or operator of a plantation, a planter
- a founder of a colony, a settler, a coloniser
Descendants
- Negerhollands: planta
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Latin plantāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
planter
- (transitive) to plant
- (transitive) to drive in (a nail, stake etc.)
- (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
- (transitive, informal) to flake, leave someone behind, by not showing up (for a meeting, date)
- (transitive, intransitive, computing) to crash
- (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fall off
- (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fail, to not succeed
- (reflexive, informal, se planter, a vehicle and etc) to break down
- (transitive, slang) to stab with a knife
- 1981, Jean-Marc Ligny, Furia!, →ISBN:
- Il se dit qu’il ne ressortira plus jamais de cette cour des miracles, que dans dix minutes un petit nerveux va déboucher d’une venelle avec un couteau et le planter aussi sec.
- He thinks that he will never get out of this slum, that in ten minutes a jumpy little man will appear from an alleyway with a knife and stab him straight away.
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | planter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | plantant /plɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | planté /plɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | plante /plɑ̃t/ |
plantes /plɑ̃t/ |
plante /plɑ̃t/ |
plantons /plɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
plantez /plɑ̃.te/ |
plantent /plɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | plantais /plɑ̃.tɛ/ |
plantais /plɑ̃.tɛ/ |
plantait /plɑ̃.tɛ/ |
plantions /plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
plantiez /plɑ̃.tje/ |
plantaient /plɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | plantai /plɑ̃.te/ |
plantas /plɑ̃.ta/ |
planta /plɑ̃.ta/ |
plantâmes /plɑ̃.tam/ |
plantâtes /plɑ̃.tat/ |
plantèrent /plɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | planterai /plɑ̃.tʁe/ |
planteras /plɑ̃.tʁa/ |
plantera /plɑ̃.tʁa/ |
planterons /plɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
planterez /plɑ̃.tʁe/ |
planteront /plɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | planterais /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
planterais /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
planterait /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
planterions /plɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
planteriez /plɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
planteraient /plɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | plante /plɑ̃t/ |
plantes /plɑ̃t/ |
plante /plɑ̃t/ |
plantions /plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
plantiez /plɑ̃.tje/ |
plantent /plɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | plantasse /plɑ̃.tas/ |
plantasses /plɑ̃.tas/ |
plantât /plɑ̃.ta/ |
plantassions /plɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
plantassiez /plɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
plantassent /plɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | plante /plɑ̃t/ |
— | plantons /plɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
plantez /plɑ̃.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). | |||||||
Conjugation of planter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “planter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Verb
planter
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
planter
- a planter; one that plants something
- Synonym: agrikilter
Related terms
Noun
planter m or f
Verb
planter
Alternative forms
Noun
planter m or f
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