contester
English
Etymology
From contest + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#CONTESTER.
Noun
contester (plural contesters)Category:English lemmas#CONTESTERCategory:English nouns#CONTESTERCategory:English countable nouns#CONTESTERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CONTESTERCategory:Pages with entries#CONTESTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#CONTESTER
- One who contests something.
- 2000, Robert S. Menchin, Where There's a Will:
- Meanwhile, Millar's second cousins and even more remote relatives hired lawyers to litigate the will out of existence. Contesters of the will claimed that the clause “encouraged immorality” and was “against public policy” […]Category:English terms with quotations#CONTESTER
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#CONTESTERCategory:French learned borrowings from Latin#CONTESTERCategory:French terms derived from Latin#CONTESTER contestārī.
Pronunciation
Verb
contesterCategory:French lemmas#CONTESTERCategory:French verbs#CONTESTERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#CONTESTERCategory:Pages with entries#CONTESTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#CONTESTER
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | contester | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | contestant /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | contesté /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
contestes /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
contestons /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɔ̃/ |
contestez /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/ |
contestent /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
| imperfect | contestais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/ |
contestais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/ |
contestait /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/ |
contestions /kɔ̃.tɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
contestiez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tje/ |
contestaient /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | contestai /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/ |
contestas /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta/ |
contesta /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta/ |
contestâmes /kɔ̃.tɛs.tam/ |
contestâtes /kɔ̃.tɛs.tat/ |
contestèrent /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | contesterai /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
contesteras /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
contestera /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
contesterons /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
contesterez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
contesteront /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | contesterais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contesterais /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contesterait /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contesterions /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
contesteriez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.ʁje/ |
contesteraient /kɔ̃.tɛs.tə.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 | conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
contestes /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
contestions /kɔ̃.tɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
contestiez /kɔ̃.tɛs.tje/ |
contestent /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
| imperfect2 | contestasse /kɔ̃.tɛs.tas/ |
contestasses /kɔ̃.tɛs.tas/ |
contestât /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta/ |
contestassions /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
contestassiez /kɔ̃.tɛs.ta.sje/ |
contestassent /kɔ̃.tɛs.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | conteste /kɔ̃.tɛst/ |
— | contestons /kɔ̃.tɛs.tɔ̃/ |
contestez /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “contester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
contesterCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#CONTESTERCategory:Latin verb forms#CONTESTERCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#CONTESTERCategory:Pages with entries#CONTESTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#CONTESTER
Norman
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Norman terms derived from Latin#CONTESTER contestor, contestārī (“call to witness”).
Verb
contesterCategory:Norman lemmas#CONTESTERCategory:Norman verbs#CONTESTERCategory:Norman entries with incorrect language header#CONTESTERCategory:Pages with entries#CONTESTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#CONTESTER
Old French
Etymology
First attested 1338, LatinCategory:Old French terms borrowed from Latin#CONTESTERCategory:Old French terms derived from Latin#CONTESTER contestor.
Verb
contesterCategory:Old French lemmas#CONTESTERCategory:Old French verbs#CONTESTERCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#CONTESTERCategory:Pages with entries#CONTESTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#CONTESTER
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | contester | avoir contesté | |||||
| gerund | en contestant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | contestant | ||||||
| past participle | contesté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | contest | contestes | conteste | contestons | contestez | contestent |
| imperfect | contestoie, contesteie, contestoe, contesteve | contestoies, contesteies, contestoes, contesteves | contestoit, contesteit, contestot, contesteve | contestiiens, contestiens | contestiiez, contestiez | contestoient, contesteient, contestoent, contestevent | |
| preterite | contestai | contestas | contesta | contestames | contestastes | contesterent | |
| future | contesterai | contesteras | contestera | contesterons | contesteroiz, contestereiz, contesterez | contesteront | |
| conditional | contesteroie, contestereie | contesteroies, contestereies | contesteroit, contestereit | contesteriiens, contesteriens | contesteriiez, contesteriez | contesteroient, contestereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | contest | contez | contest | contestons | contestez | contestent |
| imperfect | contestasse | contestasses | contestast | contestissons, contestissiens | contestissoiz, contestissez, contestissiez | contestassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | conteste | — | contestons | contestez | — | ||
Descendants
References
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “contester”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
- Etymology and history of “contester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012