distiller
English
Noun
distiller (plural distillers)
- A person who distills, especially alcoholic spirits or hard liquor by a process of distillation; a person who owns, works in or operates a distillery.
- A device or apparatus that distills, a condenser; a still.
- A company whose business is distilling, especially one that manufactures alcoholic spirits or liquor.
Related terms
- distil, distill
- distilland
- distillate
- distillation
- distilled water
- distilling
Translations
a person who distills, one who owns or works in a distillery
an apparatus that distills, a condenser, a still
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a company that distills
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin destillāre, present active infinitive of dēstillō (“I distil, I trickle”).
Pronunciation
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Conjugation
Conjugation of distiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | distillant /dis.ti.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
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| past participle | distillé /dis.ti.je/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | distiller | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | distillant /dis.ti.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | distille /dis.tij/ |
distilles /dis.tij/ |
distille /dis.tij/ |
distillons /dis.ti.jɔ̃/ |
distillez /dis.ti.je/ |
distillent /dis.tij/ |
| imperfect | distillais /dis.ti.jɛ/ |
distillais /dis.ti.jɛ/ |
distillait /dis.ti.jɛ/ |
distillions /dis.tij.jɔ̃/ |
distilliez /dis.tij.je/ |
distillaient /dis.ti.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | distillai /dis.ti.je/ |
distillas /dis.ti.ja/ |
distilla /dis.ti.ja/ |
distillâmes /dis.ti.jam/ |
distillâtes /dis.ti.jat/ |
distillèrent /dis.ti.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | distillerai /dis.tij.ʁe/ |
distilleras /dis.tij.ʁa/ |
distillera /dis.tij.ʁa/ |
distillerons /dis.tij.ʁɔ̃/ |
distillerez /dis.tij.ʁe/ |
distilleront /dis.tij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | distillerais /dis.tij.ʁɛ/ |
distillerais /dis.tij.ʁɛ/ |
distillerait /dis.tij.ʁɛ/ |
distillerions /dis.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
distilleriez /dis.ti.jə.ʁje/ |
distilleraient /dis.tij.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 | distille /dis.tij/ |
distilles /dis.tij/ |
distille /dis.tij/ |
distillions /dis.tij.jɔ̃/ |
distilliez /dis.tij.je/ |
distillent /dis.tij/ |
| imperfect2 | distillasse /dis.ti.jas/ |
distillasses /dis.ti.jas/ |
distillât /dis.ti.ja/ |
distillassions /dis.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
distillassiez /dis.ti.ja.sje/ |
distillassent /dis.ti.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | distille /dis.tij/ |
— | distillons /dis.ti.jɔ̃/ |
distillez /dis.ti.je/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “distiller” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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