cautériser

See also: cauteriser

French

Etymology

From Late Latin cauterizāre, from Ancient Greek καυτηριάζω (kautēriázō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.te.ʁi.ze/, /kɔ.te.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

cautériser

1. (transitive, surgery) to cauterize

Conjugation

Conjugation of cautériser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cautériser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cautérisant /ko.te.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cautérisé /ko.te.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cautérise /ko.te.ʁiz/	cautérises /ko.te.ʁiz/	cautérise /ko.te.ʁiz/	cautérisons /ko.te.ʁi.zɔ̃/	cautérisez /ko.te.ʁi.ze/	cautérisent /ko.te.ʁiz/
	imperfect	cautérisais /ko.te.ʁi.zɛ/	cautérisais /ko.te.ʁi.zɛ/	cautérisait /ko.te.ʁi.zɛ/	cautérisions /ko.te.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	cautérisiez /ko.te.ʁi.zje/	cautérisaient /ko.te.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	cautérisai /ko.te.ʁi.ze/	cautérisas /ko.te.ʁi.za/	cautérisa /ko.te.ʁi.za/	cautérisâmes /ko.te.ʁi.zam/	cautérisâtes /ko.te.ʁi.zat/	cautérisèrent /ko.te.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	cautériserai /ko.te.ʁiz.ʁe/	cautériseras /ko.te.ʁiz.ʁa/	cautérisera /ko.te.ʁiz.ʁa/	cautériserons /ko.te.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	cautériserez /ko.te.ʁiz.ʁe/	cautériseront /ko.te.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cautériserais /ko.te.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	cautériserais /ko.te.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	cautériserait /ko.te.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	cautériserions /ko.te.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	cautériseriez /ko.te.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	cautériseraient /ko.te.ʁiz.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	cautérise /ko.te.ʁiz/	cautérises /ko.te.ʁiz/	cautérise /ko.te.ʁiz/	cautérisions /ko.te.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	cautérisiez /ko.te.ʁi.zje/	cautérisent /ko.te.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	cautérisasse /ko.te.ʁi.zas/	cautérisasses /ko.te.ʁi.zas/	cautérisât /ko.te.ʁi.za/	cautérisassions /ko.te.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	cautérisassiez /ko.te.ʁi.za.sje/	cautérisassent /ko.te.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cautérise /ko.te.ʁiz/	—	cautérisons /ko.te.ʁi.zɔ̃/	cautérisez /ko.te.ʁi.ze/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “cautériser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.