excogiter

French

Etymology

From Latin excogitare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.te/

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Verb

excogiter

1. (rare, aged) to imagine

Conjugation

Conjugation of excogiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	excogiter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	excogitant /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		excogité /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	excogite /ɛk.skɔ.ʒit/	excogites /ɛk.skɔ.ʒit/	excogite /ɛk.skɔ.ʒit/	excogitons /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tɔ̃/	excogitez /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.te/	excogitent /ɛk.skɔ.ʒit/
	imperfect	excogitais /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tɛ/	excogitais /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tɛ/	excogitait /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tɛ/	excogitions /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tjɔ̃/	excogitiez /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tje/	excogitaient /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tɛ/
	past historic2	excogitai /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.te/	excogitas /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.ta/	excogita /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.ta/	excogitâmes /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tam/	excogitâtes /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tat/	excogitèrent /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tɛʁ/
	future	excogiterai /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tʁe/	excogiteras /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tʁa/	excogitera /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tʁa/	excogiterons /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tʁɔ̃/	excogiterez /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tʁe/	excogiteront /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	excogiterais /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tʁɛ/	excogiterais /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tʁɛ/	excogiterait /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tʁɛ/	excogiterions /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	excogiteriez /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tə.ʁje/	excogiteraient /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.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	excogite /ɛk.skɔ.ʒit/	excogites /ɛk.skɔ.ʒit/	excogite /ɛk.skɔ.ʒit/	excogitions /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tjɔ̃/	excogitiez /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tje/	excogitent /ɛk.skɔ.ʒit/
	imperfect2	excogitasse /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tas/	excogitasses /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tas/	excogitât /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.ta/	excogitassions /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.ta.sjɔ̃/	excogitassiez /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.ta.sje/	excogitassent /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	excogite /ɛk.skɔ.ʒit/	—	excogitons /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.tɔ̃/	excogitez /ɛk.skɔ.ʒi.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

• excogitation

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈskoː.ɡi.ter/, [ɛkˈs̠koːɡɪt̪ɛr]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsko.d͡ʒi.ter/, [ekˈskɔːd͡ʒit̪er]

Verb

excōgiter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of excōgitō