évanouir

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French esvanir, evanir, probably from a Vulgar Latin *exvānīre, later influenced from the Latin form ēvānuit (vanished) of ēvānescō, ēvānēscere.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /e.va.nwiʁ/
  • Audio (Paris):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iʁ

Verb

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évanouir

  1. (pronominal) to lose consciousness; to faint
    • 2011 February 20, L'Orient-Le Jour[1]:
      Cheikh Mohammad Ishaq al-Fayyad s’est évanoui et a saigné du nez à plusieurs reprises ces derniers mois.
      Sheikh Mohammad Ishaq al-Fayyad fainted and bled from the nose several times in recent months.
  2. (pronominal, formal) to vanish or disappear without a trace, especially things

Conjugation

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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-.

Derived terms

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