croupir

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From croupe +‎ -ir [1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kʁu.piʁ/
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

croupir

  1. (of water) to stagnate
  2. to wallow (remain miserable)
    croupir dans la misèreto wallow in misery
  3. to rot (e.g. in prison)

Conjugation[edit]

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-.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ croupir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.