abattre

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French abbatre, from Old French abatre, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere. Cognate with Catalan abatre, Corsican abbatta, abbatte, Galician abater, Italian abbattere, Occitan abatre, Portuguese abater, Romanian abate, Sardinian abbàttiri, Sicilian abbàttiri, Spanish abatir. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.batʁ/ === Verb === abattre to butcher; to slaughter for meat to shoot dead to cut down (a tree) to destroy or demolish (a wall) (reflexive) to fall down, especially of tall things, such as trees (pronominal) to descend upon with violence or furor (pronominal, of lightning) to strike ==== Conjugation ==== This verb is conjugated like battre. That means it is conjugated like vendre, perdre, etc. (sometimes called the regular -re verbs), except that instead of *abatt and *abatts, it has the forms abat and abats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== battre === Further reading === “abattre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === baratte, ébattra, rabatte == Norman == === Alternative forms === abat === Etymology === From Old French abatre, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.batr/ === Verb === abattre (Jersey) to knock down === References === Spence, N.C.W. (1960). Glossary of Jersey-French. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 39.