fermenter
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Noun
fermenter (plural fermenters)
- Any organism, such as a yeast, that causes fermentation.
- A fermentor; a vessel in which fermentation takes place.
- 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 205:
- Where this has proved impossible, we've outsourced the process using barrels, jars, comost heaps and industrial fermenters.
Derived terms
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fermentāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: fermentai, fermenté, fermentée, fermentées, fermentés, fermentez
Verb
fermenter
- (intransitive) to ferment
Conjugation
Conjugation of fermenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fermenter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fermentant /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fermenté /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermentes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermentons /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
fermentez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/ |
fermentent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | fermentais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ |
fermentais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ |
fermentait /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ |
fermentions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
fermentiez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tje/ |
fermentaient /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fermentai /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/ |
fermentas /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta/ |
fermenta /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta/ |
fermentâmes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tam/ |
fermentâtes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tat/ |
fermentèrent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | fermenterai /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁe/ |
fermenteras /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁa/ |
fermentera /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁa/ |
fermenterons /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
fermenterez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁe/ |
fermenteront /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fermenterais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
fermenterais /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
fermenterait /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
fermenterions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fermenteriez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
fermenteraient /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermentes /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
fermentions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
fermentiez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tje/ |
fermentent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | fermentasse /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tas/ |
fermentasses /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tas/ |
fermentât /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta/ |
fermentassions /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
fermentassiez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
fermentassent /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fermente /fɛʁ.mɑ̃t/ |
— | fermentons /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
fermentez /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “fermenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɛrˈmɛn.tɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ferˈmɛn̪.t̪er]
Verb
fermenter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fermentō