adorner
English
Etymology
Noun
adorner (plural adorners)
- One who places adornments; one who adorns.
- (graphical user interface) A visual element used to decorate or enhance another element to which it is attached.
- 2010, Phillip Beadle, Mahesh Krishnan, Microsoft Silverlight 4 For Dummies:
- Click one of the margin adorners. The shape of the margin adorner changes […]
Translations
one who places adornments
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Circa 1331 adourner, circa 1370 adorner. Borrowed from Latin adōrnāre and from Latin adōrdinō.[1] Replaced Old French, Middle French aorner, a borrowing from the same sources.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dɔʁ.ne/
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Verb
adorner
- (literary or dated) to adorn; to decorate
Conjugation
Conjugation of adorner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | adorner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | adornant /a.dɔʁ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | adorné /a.dɔʁ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | adorne /a.dɔʁn/ |
adornes /a.dɔʁn/ |
adorne /a.dɔʁn/ |
adornons /a.dɔʁ.nɔ̃/ |
adornez /a.dɔʁ.ne/ |
adornent /a.dɔʁn/ |
| imperfect | adornais /a.dɔʁ.nɛ/ |
adornais /a.dɔʁ.nɛ/ |
adornait /a.dɔʁ.nɛ/ |
adornions /a.dɔʁ.njɔ̃/ |
adorniez /a.dɔʁ.nje/ |
adornaient /a.dɔʁ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | adornai /a.dɔʁ.ne/ |
adornas /a.dɔʁ.na/ |
adorna /a.dɔʁ.na/ |
adornâmes /a.dɔʁ.nam/ |
adornâtes /a.dɔʁ.nat/ |
adornèrent /a.dɔʁ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | adornerai /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁe/ |
adorneras /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁa/ |
adornera /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁa/ |
adornerons /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/ |
adornerez /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁe/ |
adorneront /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | adornerais /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
adornerais /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
adornerait /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁɛ/ |
adornerions /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
adorneriez /a.dɔʁ.nə.ʁje/ |
adorneraient /a.dɔʁ.nə.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 | adorne /a.dɔʁn/ |
adornes /a.dɔʁn/ |
adorne /a.dɔʁn/ |
adornions /a.dɔʁ.njɔ̃/ |
adorniez /a.dɔʁ.nje/ |
adornent /a.dɔʁn/ |
| imperfect2 | adornasse /a.dɔʁ.nas/ |
adornasses /a.dɔʁ.nas/ |
adornât /a.dɔʁ.na/ |
adornassions /a.dɔʁ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
adornassiez /a.dɔʁ.na.sje/ |
adornassent /a.dɔʁ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | adorne /a.dɔʁn/ |
— | adornons /a.dɔʁ.nɔ̃/ |
adornez /a.dɔʁ.ne/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
References
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “adordinare; adornare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 178
Further reading
- “adorner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
adōrner
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adōrnō