escoffier

French

Alternative forms

• escofier (Ardennais)

Etymology

From Provençal escoufia, possibly ultimately from Late Latin cofia (with the meaning of decapitating), which is a Germanic borrowing; see coif.

Pronunciation

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Verb

escoffier

1. (archaic) to kill

Conjugation

Conjugation of escoffier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	escoffier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	escoffiant /ɛs.kɔ.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		escoffié /ɛs.kɔ.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	escoffie /ɛs.kɔ.fi/	escoffies /ɛs.kɔ.fi/	escoffie /ɛs.kɔ.fi/	escoffions /ɛs.kɔ.fjɔ̃/	escoffiez /ɛs.kɔ.fje/	escoffient /ɛs.kɔ.fi/
	imperfect	escoffiais /ɛs.kɔ.fjɛ/	escoffiais /ɛs.kɔ.fjɛ/	escoffiait /ɛs.kɔ.fjɛ/	escoffiions /ɛs.kɔ.fi.jɔ̃/	escoffiiez /ɛs.kɔ.fi.je/	escoffiaient /ɛs.kɔ.fjɛ/
	past historic2	escoffiai /ɛs.kɔ.fje/	escoffias /ɛs.kɔ.fja/	escoffia /ɛs.kɔ.fja/	escoffiâmes /ɛs.kɔ.fjam/	escoffiâtes /ɛs.kɔ.fjat/	escoffièrent /ɛs.kɔ.fjɛʁ/
	future	escoffierai /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁe/	escoffieras /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁa/	escoffiera /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁa/	escoffierons /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁɔ̃/	escoffierez /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁe/	escoffieront /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	escoffierais /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁɛ/	escoffierais /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁɛ/	escoffierait /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁɛ/	escoffierions /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	escoffieriez /ɛs.kɔ.fi.ʁje/	escoffieraient /ɛs.kɔ.fi.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	escoffie /ɛs.kɔ.fi/	escoffies /ɛs.kɔ.fi/	escoffie /ɛs.kɔ.fi/	escoffiions /ɛs.kɔ.fi.jɔ̃/	escoffiiez /ɛs.kɔ.fi.je/	escoffient /ɛs.kɔ.fi/
	imperfect2	escoffiasse /ɛs.kɔ.fjas/	escoffiasses /ɛs.kɔ.fjas/	escoffiât /ɛs.kɔ.fja/	escoffiassions /ɛs.kɔ.fja.sjɔ̃/	escoffiassiez /ɛs.kɔ.fja.sje/	escoffiassent /ɛs.kɔ.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	escoffie /ɛs.kɔ.fi/	—	escoffions /ɛs.kɔ.fjɔ̃/	escoffiez /ɛs.kɔ.fje/	—
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

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