étrécir

== French == === Etymology === From Old French estrecier, from Vulgar Latin *strictiare, from Latin strictus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /e.tʁe.siʁ/ Rhymes: -iʁ === Verb === étrécir (archaic, transitive) to make narrow ==== Usage notes ==== Only the prefixed verb rétrécir is used in contemporary French. ==== Conjugation ==== This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-. === Further reading === “étrécir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === critère, réciter, récrite, rétréci, tiercer