sibiler
French
Etymology
From Latin sībilāre (“to hiss”), from sībilus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.bi.le/
Verb
sibiler
- (intransitive) to hiss; to wheeze; to make a sound like a whistle
- 1918, Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes, Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre (1913-1916), Mercure de France:
- Laissons sibiler les serpents // En vain contre le vent du sud
- Let the snakes hiss // vainly against the southern wind
Conjugation
Conjugation of sibiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sibiler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sibilant /si.bi.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sibilé /si.bi.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | sibile /si.bil/ |
sibiles /si.bil/ |
sibile /si.bil/ |
sibilons /si.bi.lɔ̃/ |
sibilez /si.bi.le/ |
sibilent /si.bil/ |
| imperfect | sibilais /si.bi.lɛ/ |
sibilais /si.bi.lɛ/ |
sibilait /si.bi.lɛ/ |
sibilions /si.bi.ljɔ̃/ |
sibiliez /si.bi.lje/ |
sibilaient /si.bi.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sibilai /si.bi.le/ |
sibilas /si.bi.la/ |
sibila /si.bi.la/ |
sibilâmes /si.bi.lam/ |
sibilâtes /si.bi.lat/ |
sibilèrent /si.bi.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | sibilerai /si.bil.ʁe/ |
sibileras /si.bil.ʁa/ |
sibilera /si.bil.ʁa/ |
sibilerons /si.bil.ʁɔ̃/ |
sibilerez /si.bil.ʁe/ |
sibileront /si.bil.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sibilerais /si.bil.ʁɛ/ |
sibilerais /si.bil.ʁɛ/ |
sibilerait /si.bil.ʁɛ/ |
sibilerions /si.bi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sibileriez /si.bi.lə.ʁje/ |
sibileraient /si.bil.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 | sibile /si.bil/ |
sibiles /si.bil/ |
sibile /si.bil/ |
sibilions /si.bi.ljɔ̃/ |
sibiliez /si.bi.lje/ |
sibilent /si.bil/ |
| imperfect2 | sibilasse /si.bi.las/ |
sibilasses /si.bi.las/ |
sibilât /si.bi.la/ |
sibilassions /si.bi.la.sjɔ̃/ |
sibilassiez /si.bi.la.sje/ |
sibilassent /si.bi.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sibile /si.bil/ |
— | sibilons /si.bi.lɔ̃/ |
sibilez /si.bi.le/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “sibiler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsiː.bɪ.ɫɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsiː.bi.ler]
Verb
sībiler
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of sībilō