meurtrir

From Middle French meurtrir (“to bruise, leave a mark on the skin, tear, hurt, to murder”) from Old French meurtrir, murtrir (“to kill, slaughter, murder”), from Frankish *murþrijan (“to murder”) from Proto-Germanic *murþrijaną (“to kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“murder, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr- (“to die”). Akin to Old High German murd(r)jan (“to kill, murder”) (German mördern (“to murder”)), Old English myrþrian (“to murder”), Old English morþor (“death, murder”). More at murder.

• IPA^(key): /mœʁ.tʁiʁ/

meurtrir

1. (transitive, obsolete) to murder
2. (transitive) to injure, hurt; to bruise, especially in reference to fruit; to leave a contusion
3. (transitive) to hurt or injure someone's feelings

• The verb tuer is more commonly used for "to murder" but may be ambiguous as it also refers to non-deliberate killing

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• meurtrissable
• meurtrissant
• meurtrissement
• meurtrissure
• meurtre
• meurtrier

• “meurtrir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

meurtrir

1. to murder