boycotter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English Charles Boycott

English boycott

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English boycotter

From boycott + -er.

Noun

boycotter (plural boycotters)

1. Someone who engages in a boycott
   • 2009 January 18, Anthony Lewis, “A New National Scripture”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     As early as 1955 […] , he spoke in what Sundquist calls his “ornate metaphorical style,” evident in his first speech to the boycotters.

Translations

someone who engages in a boycott

• French: boycotteur (fr) m, boycotteuse (fr) f
• Galician: boicoteador (gl)
• Indonesian: pemboikot (id)
• Māori: kaipapare

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

English Charles Boycott

English boycottbor.

French boycott

Proto-Italic *-āzi

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Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Old French -ier

Middle French -er

French -er

French boycotter

From boycott + -er. Calque of English boycott.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔj.kɔ.te/

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Verb

boycotter

1. to boycott
   • 1880 December 29, Édouard Bonnaffé, chapter 4, in Parlement, page 2:

     Sir Richard Wallace n'a pas encore été boycotté.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of boycotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	boycotter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	boycottant /bɔj.kɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		boycotté /bɔj.kɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	boycotte /bɔj.kɔt/	boycottes /bɔj.kɔt/	boycotte /bɔj.kɔt/	boycottons /bɔj.kɔ.tɔ̃/	boycottez /bɔj.kɔ.te/	boycottent /bɔj.kɔt/
	imperfect	boycottais /bɔj.kɔ.tɛ/	boycottais /bɔj.kɔ.tɛ/	boycottait /bɔj.kɔ.tɛ/	boycottions /bɔj.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	boycottiez /bɔj.kɔ.tje/	boycottaient /bɔj.kɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	boycottai /bɔj.kɔ.te/	boycottas /bɔj.kɔ.ta/	boycotta /bɔj.kɔ.ta/	boycottâmes /bɔj.kɔ.tam/	boycottâtes /bɔj.kɔ.tat/	boycottèrent /bɔj.kɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	boycotterai /bɔj.kɔ.tʁe/	boycotteras /bɔj.kɔ.tʁa/	boycottera /bɔj.kɔ.tʁa/	boycotterons /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/	boycotterez /bɔj.kɔ.tʁe/	boycotteront /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	boycotterais /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɛ/	boycotterais /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɛ/	boycotterait /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɛ/	boycotterions /bɔj.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	boycotteriez /bɔj.kɔ.tə.ʁje/	boycotteraient /bɔj.kɔ.tʁɛ/
(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	boycotte /bɔj.kɔt/	boycottes /bɔj.kɔt/	boycotte /bɔj.kɔt/	boycottions /bɔj.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	boycottiez /bɔj.kɔ.tje/	boycottent /bɔj.kɔt/
	imperfect2	boycottasse /bɔj.kɔ.tas/	boycottasses /bɔj.kɔ.tas/	boycottât /bɔj.kɔ.ta/	boycottassions /bɔj.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	boycottassiez /bɔj.kɔ.ta.sje/	boycottassent /bɔj.kɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	boycotte /bɔj.kɔt/	—	boycottons /bɔj.kɔ.tɔ̃/	boycottez /bɔj.kɔ.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• boycott m
• boycotteur m

Further reading

• “boycotter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012