amasser
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]amasser (plural amassers)
- One who amasses.
- 1677, John Webster, chapter 4, in The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft[1], London, page 59:
- [He] was a man of prodigious pride and vain-glory, which led him […] into no small errours, being a great Amasser of strange and incredible stories, led to relate them by his meer ambition of hunting after fame and the reputation of an universal Scholar.
- 1821, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, London: John Warren, Essay 11, “On Thought and Action,” p. 260,[2]
- The amassers of fortunes seem divided into two opposite classes, lean, penurious-looking mortals, or jolly fellows who are determined to get possession of, because they want to enjoy the good things of the world.
- 1941, Cole Porter, “Pets,” lyrics written for the Broadway musical Let’s Face It! cited in Robert Kimball (ed.), The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York: Da Capo, 1992, p. 309,[3]
- Some folks collect paintings,
- Some folks collect stamps,
- Some are amassers
- Of antimacassars
- And other Victorian camps.
- 1944, George Weller, Bases Overseas, excerpt published in Anthony Weller (ed.), Weller’s War, New York: Crown, 2009, p. 488,[4]
- The first act of the Japanese army on arriving at a new island is to go fishing and start a garden. The first act of the Americans is to buy something from the natives. The American is an amasser.
- 2014, Judith Donath, chapter 11, in The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online,[5], Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, page 280:
- Marketers […] are among the most voracious amassers of information about what people do and say online.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one who amasses
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French amasser. By surface analysis, a- + masse + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /a.ma.se/ ~ /a.mɑ.se/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: amassai, amassé, amassée, amassées, amassés, amassez
Verb
[edit]amasser
- (transitive) to amass; to gather up
- (pronominal) to accumulate, to build up
- (pronominal, Louisiana) to huddle
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of amasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | amasser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | amassant /a.ma.sɑ̃/ or /a.mɑ.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | amassé /a.ma.se/ or /a.mɑ.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | amasse /a.mas/ or /a.mɑs/ |
amasses /a.mas/ or /a.mɑs/ |
amasse /a.mas/ or /a.mɑs/ |
amassons /a.ma.sɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.sɔ̃/ |
amassez /a.ma.se/ or /a.mɑ.se/ |
amassent /a.mas/ or /a.mɑs/ |
| imperfect | amassais /a.ma.sɛ/ or /a.mɑ.sɛ/ |
amassais /a.ma.sɛ/ or /a.mɑ.sɛ/ |
amassait /a.ma.sɛ/ or /a.mɑ.sɛ/ |
amassions /a.ma.sjɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.sjɔ̃/ |
amassiez /a.ma.sje/ or /a.mɑ.sje/ |
amassaient /a.ma.sɛ/ or /a.mɑ.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | amassai /a.ma.se/ or /a.mɑ.se/ |
amassas /a.ma.sa/ or /a.mɑ.sa/ |
amassa /a.ma.sa/ or /a.mɑ.sa/ |
amassâmes /a.ma.sam/ or /a.mɑ.sam/ |
amassâtes /a.ma.sat/ or /a.mɑ.sat/ |
amassèrent /a.ma.sɛʁ/ or /a.mɑ.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | amasserai /a.ma.sʁe/ or /a.mɑ.sʁe/ |
amasseras /a.ma.sʁa/ or /a.mɑ.sʁa/ |
amassera /a.ma.sʁa/ or /a.mɑ.sʁa/ |
amasserons /a.ma.sʁɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.sʁɔ̃/ |
amasserez /a.ma.sʁe/ or /a.mɑ.sʁe/ |
amasseront /a.ma.sʁɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | amasserais /a.ma.sʁɛ/ or /a.mɑ.sʁɛ/ |
amasserais /a.ma.sʁɛ/ or /a.mɑ.sʁɛ/ |
amasserait /a.ma.sʁɛ/ or /a.mɑ.sʁɛ/ |
amasserions /a.ma.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
amasseriez /a.ma.sə.ʁje/ or /a.mɑ.sə.ʁje/ |
amasseraient /a.ma.sʁɛ/ or /a.mɑ.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 | amasse /a.mas/ or /a.mɑs/ |
amasses /a.mas/ or /a.mɑs/ |
amasse /a.mas/ or /a.mɑs/ |
amassions /a.ma.sjɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.sjɔ̃/ |
amassiez /a.ma.sje/ or /a.mɑ.sje/ |
amassent /a.mas/ or /a.mɑs/ |
| imperfect2 | amassasse /a.ma.sas/ or /a.mɑ.sas/ |
amassasses /a.ma.sas/ or /a.mɑ.sas/ |
amassât /a.ma.sa/ or /a.mɑ.sa/ |
amassassions /a.ma.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
amassassiez /a.ma.sa.sje/ or /a.mɑ.sa.sje/ |
amassassent /a.ma.sas/ or /a.mɑ.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | amasse /a.mas/ or /a.mɑs/ |
— | amassons /a.ma.sɔ̃/ or /a.mɑ.sɔ̃/ |
amassez /a.ma.se/ or /a.mɑ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “amasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
[edit]Verb
[edit]amasser
- to collect up; to get together
- 1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses [This first book talks about the birth of all things]” (chapter 1), Livre I - Premiere partie, in Livres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini[6], Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 1:
- si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience
- Just like the lord, who wishes to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts there—according to his good intention—the dearest things and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge
Conjugation
[edit]This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of amasser (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | amasser | avoir amassé | |||||
| gerund | en amassant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | amassant | ||||||
| past participle | amassé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | amas | amasses | amasse | amassons | amassez | amassent |
| imperfect | amassoie, amasseie, amassoe, amasseve | amassoies, amasseies, amassoes, amasseves | amassoit, amasseit, amassot, amasseve | amassiiens, amassiens | amassiiez, amassiez | amassoient, amasseient, amassoent, amassevent | |
| preterite | amassai | amassas | amassa | amassames | amassastes | amasserent | |
| future | amasserai | amasseras | amassera | amasserons | amasseroiz, amassereiz, amasserez | amasseront | |
| conditional | amasseroie, amassereie | amasseroies, amassereies | amasseroit, amassereit | amasseriiens, amasseriens | amasseriiez, amasseriez | amasseroient, amassereient | |
| 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 | amas | amas | amast | amassons | amassez | amassent |
| imperfect | amassasse | amassasses | amassast | amassissons, amassissiens | amassissoiz, amassissez, amassissiez | amassassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | amasse | — | amassons | amassez | — | ||
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- French: amasser
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