gésir

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See also: gesir

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French gesir, from Latin iacēre.

The final -ir < Latin -ēre is regular and results from the palatalization of the preceding -c- to *[d͡zʲ], as in loisir, moisir, plaisir.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʒe.ziʁ/
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Verb

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gésir

  1. (intransitive, archaic or literary) to lie (to be in a horizontal position), especially when dead or wounded
    Ci-gît... (formula used on gravestones)Here lies...
    La victime gisait dans son sang.The victim was lying in a pool of their own blood.
  2. (intransitive, archaic or literary) to be located
  3. (intransitive, archaic or literary) to be buried, hidden

Usage notes

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  • This verb is mostly archaic, but survives in the literary language and in the turn of phrase ci-gît.
  • The circumflex on the ‘i’ in the third-person singular present indicative has been optional since the 1990 French spelling reforms; see gît (old spelling) and git (new spelling).

Conjugation

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This is a defective verb, and is only conjugated in the present and imperfect indicative.

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See also

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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