catapulter

English

Etymology

catapult +‎ -er

Noun

catapulter (plural catapulters)

  1. One who uses a catapult.
    • 2009, Matthew Reilly, The Five Greatest Warriors (novel), Simon and Schuster (2010), →ISBN, page 118:
      Then he loaded one of the lattice-shrouded cannonballs into the trebuchet’s sling, pulled out a lighter, and, as Genghis Khan’s catapulters would have done 800 years previously, lit the wooden kindling inside it and fired.

French

Verb

catapulter

  1. to catapult

Conjugation
Conjugation of catapulter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle catapultant
/ka.ta.pyl.tɑ̃/
past participle catapulté
/ka.ta.pyl.te/
infinitive
simple catapulter
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple catapultant
/ka.ta.pyl.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present catapulte
/ka.ta.pylt/		 catapultes
/ka.ta.pylt/		 catapulte
/ka.ta.pylt/		 catapultons
/ka.ta.pyl.tɔ̃/		 catapultez
/ka.ta.pyl.te/		 catapultent
/ka.ta.pylt/
imperfect catapultais
/ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/		 catapultais
/ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/		 catapultait
/ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/		 catapultions
/ka.ta.pyl.tjɔ̃/		 catapultiez
/ka.ta.pyl.tje/		 catapultaient
/ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/
past historic2 catapultai
/ka.ta.pyl.te/		 catapultas
/ka.ta.pyl.ta/		 catapulta
/ka.ta.pyl.ta/		 catapultâmes
/ka.ta.pyl.tam/		 catapultâtes
/ka.ta.pyl.tat/		 catapultèrent
/ka.ta.pyl.tɛʁ/
future catapulterai
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁe/		 catapulteras
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁa/		 catapultera
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁa/		 catapulterons
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/		 catapulterez
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁe/		 catapulteront
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional catapulterais
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/		 catapulterais
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/		 catapulterait
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/		 catapulterions
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 catapulteriez
/ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁje/		 catapulteraient
/ka.ta.pyl.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 catapulte
/ka.ta.pylt/		 catapultes
/ka.ta.pylt/		 catapulte
/ka.ta.pylt/		 catapultions
/ka.ta.pyl.tjɔ̃/		 catapultiez
/ka.ta.pyl.tje/		 catapultent
/ka.ta.pylt/
imperfect2 catapultasse
/ka.ta.pyl.tas/		 catapultasses
/ka.ta.pyl.tas/		 catapultât
/ka.ta.pyl.ta/		 catapultassions
/ka.ta.pyl.ta.sjɔ̃/		 catapultassiez
/ka.ta.pyl.ta.sje/		 catapultassent
/ka.ta.pyl.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — catapulte
/ka.ta.pylt/		 — catapultons
/ka.ta.pyl.tɔ̃/		 catapultez
/ka.ta.pyl.te/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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