lapider

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lapidāre (“to stone”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

lapider

1. to stone; to lapidate (pelt with stones)
2. (informal, figurative) to attack verbally
   • 1972, Charles Aznavour (lyrics and music), “Comme ils disent”, in Idiote, je t'aime…:

     Et là on s’en donne à cœur-joie / Et sans complexe / On déballe des vérités / Sur des gens qu’on a dans le nez / On les lapide / Mais on le fait avec humour / Enrobé dans des calembours / Mouillés d’acide

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Conjugation

Conjugation of lapider (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lapider
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lapidant /la.pi.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lapidé /la.pi.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lapide /la.pid/	lapides /la.pid/	lapide /la.pid/	lapidons /la.pi.dɔ̃/	lapidez /la.pi.de/	lapident /la.pid/
	imperfect	lapidais /la.pi.dɛ/	lapidais /la.pi.dɛ/	lapidait /la.pi.dɛ/	lapidions /la.pi.djɔ̃/	lapidiez /la.pi.dje/	lapidaient /la.pi.dɛ/
	past historic2	lapidai /la.pi.de/	lapidas /la.pi.da/	lapida /la.pi.da/	lapidâmes /la.pi.dam/	lapidâtes /la.pi.dat/	lapidèrent /la.pi.dɛʁ/
	future	lapiderai /la.pi.dʁe/	lapideras /la.pi.dʁa/	lapidera /la.pi.dʁa/	lapiderons /la.pi.dʁɔ̃/	lapiderez /la.pi.dʁe/	lapideront /la.pi.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lapiderais /la.pi.dʁɛ/	lapiderais /la.pi.dʁɛ/	lapiderait /la.pi.dʁɛ/	lapiderions /la.pi.də.ʁjɔ̃/	lapideriez /la.pi.də.ʁje/	lapideraient /la.pi.dʁɛ/
(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	lapide /la.pid/	lapides /la.pid/	lapide /la.pid/	lapidions /la.pi.djɔ̃/	lapidiez /la.pi.dje/	lapident /la.pid/
	imperfect2	lapidasse /la.pi.das/	lapidasses /la.pi.das/	lapidât /la.pi.da/	lapidassions /la.pi.da.sjɔ̃/	lapidassiez /la.pi.da.sje/	lapidassent /la.pi.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lapide /la.pid/	—	lapidons /la.pi.dɔ̃/	lapidez /la.pi.de/	—
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).

Derived terms

• lapidaire
• lapidation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• plaider

Latin

Verb

lapider

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lapidō

Norman

Etymology

From Latin lapidō, lapidāre (“stone”, verb).

Verb

lapider

1. (Jersey) to stone, lapidate (pelt with stones)