intercepter

English

Noun

intercepter (plural intercepters)

1. Alternative form of interceptor
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as the hunter, attends thee at the orchard end

French

Etymology

From interception.

Pronunciation

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Verb

intercepter

1. (transitive) to intercept

Conjugation

Conjugation of intercepter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	intercepter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	interceptant /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		intercepté /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	intercepte /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt/	interceptes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt/	intercepte /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt/	interceptons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɔ̃/	interceptez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.te/	interceptent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt/
	imperfect	interceptais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɛ/	interceptais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɛ/	interceptait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɛ/	interceptions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tjɔ̃/	interceptiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tje/	interceptaient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɛ/
	past historic2	interceptai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.te/	interceptas /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.ta/	intercepta /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.ta/	interceptâmes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tam/	interceptâtes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tat/	interceptèrent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɛʁ/
	future	intercepterai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁe/	intercepteras /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁa/	interceptera /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁa/	intercepterons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁɔ̃/	intercepterez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁe/	intercepteront /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	intercepterais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁɛ/	intercepterais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁɛ/	intercepterait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁɛ/	intercepterions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	intercepteriez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tə.ʁje/	intercepteraient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.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	intercepte /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt/	interceptes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt/	intercepte /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt/	interceptions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tjɔ̃/	interceptiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tje/	interceptent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt/
	imperfect2	interceptasse /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tas/	interceptasses /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tas/	interceptât /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.ta/	interceptassions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.ta.sjɔ̃/	interceptassiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.ta.sje/	interceptassent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	intercepte /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt/	—	interceptons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɔ̃/	interceptez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.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).

Further reading

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