flétrir

== French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fle.tʁiʁ/ === Etymology 1 === From Old French flaistre (“withered”), from Latin flaccidus. ==== Verb ==== flétrir (transitive) to wither (reflexive) to wither, wilt, shrivel ===== 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-. === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Middle French flestrir, from Old French flastrir, alteration of Old French flatir (under influence of Etymology 1, above), from Frankish *flattjan (“to move the palm of one's hand”), from Proto-Germanic *flatjaną (“to flatten”). ==== Verb ==== flétrir (transitive, archaic) to brand (as punishment) (transitive, archaic) to condemn For quotations using this term, see Citations:flétrir. (transitive, archaic) to blacken, besmirch (someone's reputation etc.) ===== 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 === “flétrir”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “flétrir”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette “flétrir” in Dictionnaire Le Robert. “flétrir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams ===