proscrire

French

Etymology

From Latin prōscrībere (“to advertise, proclaim; to publish; to proscribe, ban; to outlaw, banish”), from prō + scrībō (“to write”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔs.kʁiʁ/

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Verb

proscrire

1. (transitive) to banish
2. (transitive) to ban, prohibit, proscribe

Conjugation

Conjugation of proscrire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	proscrire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	proscrivant /pʁɔs.kʁi.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		proscrit /pʁɔs.kʁi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	proscris /pʁɔs.kʁi/	proscris /pʁɔs.kʁi/	proscrit /pʁɔs.kʁi/	proscrivons /pʁɔs.kʁi.vɔ̃/	proscrivez /pʁɔs.kʁi.ve/	proscrivent /pʁɔs.kʁiv/
	imperfect	proscrivais /pʁɔs.kʁi.vɛ/	proscrivais /pʁɔs.kʁi.vɛ/	proscrivait /pʁɔs.kʁi.vɛ/	proscrivions /pʁɔs.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	proscriviez /pʁɔs.kʁi.vje/	proscrivaient /pʁɔs.kʁi.vɛ/
	past historic2	proscrivis /pʁɔs.kʁi.vi/	proscrivis /pʁɔs.kʁi.vi/	proscrivit /pʁɔs.kʁi.vi/	proscrivîmes /pʁɔs.kʁi.vim/	proscrivîtes /pʁɔs.kʁi.vit/	proscrivirent /pʁɔs.kʁi.viʁ/
	future	proscrirai /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁe/	proscriras /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁa/	proscrira /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁa/	proscrirons /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/	proscrirez /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁe/	proscriront /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	proscrirais /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁɛ/	proscrirais /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁɛ/	proscrirait /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁɛ/	proscririons /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	proscririez /pʁɔs.kʁi.ʁje/	proscriraient /pʁɔs.kʁi.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	proscrive /pʁɔs.kʁiv/	proscrives /pʁɔs.kʁiv/	proscrive /pʁɔs.kʁiv/	proscrivions /pʁɔs.kʁi.vjɔ̃/	proscriviez /pʁɔs.kʁi.vje/	proscrivent /pʁɔs.kʁiv/
	imperfect2	proscrivisse /pʁɔs.kʁi.vis/	proscrivisses /pʁɔs.kʁi.vis/	proscrivît /pʁɔs.kʁi.vi/	proscrivissions /pʁɔs.kʁi.vi.sjɔ̃/	proscrivissiez /pʁɔs.kʁi.vi.sje/	proscrivissent /pʁɔs.kʁi.vis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	proscris /pʁɔs.kʁi/	—	proscrivons /pʁɔs.kʁi.vɔ̃/	proscrivez /pʁɔs.kʁi.ve/	—
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

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