thésauriser

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin thesaurizāre, from Ancient Greek θησαυρίζω (thēsaurízō, “to store, treasure up”), from θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “store-room, treasure, granary, strong-box”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.zɔ.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

thésauriser

1. (money) to hoard
   • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 158; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:

     Craignant de se trahir en investissant sur place, ils thésaurisaient, dirigeant l’excédant de leur revenu sur les banques étrangères, ou le jouaient, toutes portes closes, à des taux fabuleux.

     — Fearing betrayal if they invested it locally, they hoarded their money, sending their excess income to foreign banks, or playing behind closed doors for fantastic stakes.

Conjugation

Conjugation of thésauriser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	thésauriser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	thésaurisant /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		thésaurisé /te.zɔ.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	thésaurise /te.zɔ.ʁiz/	thésaurises /te.zɔ.ʁiz/	thésaurise /te.zɔ.ʁiz/	thésaurisons /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	thésaurisez /te.zɔ.ʁi.ze/	thésaurisent /te.zɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect	thésaurisais /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	thésaurisais /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	thésaurisait /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	thésaurisions /te.zɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	thésaurisiez /te.zɔ.ʁi.zje/	thésaurisaient /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	thésaurisai /te.zɔ.ʁi.ze/	thésaurisas /te.zɔ.ʁi.za/	thésaurisa /te.zɔ.ʁi.za/	thésaurisâmes /te.zɔ.ʁi.zam/	thésaurisâtes /te.zɔ.ʁi.zat/	thésaurisèrent /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	thésauriserai /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	thésauriseras /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	thésaurisera /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	thésauriserons /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	thésauriserez /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	thésauriseront /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	thésauriserais /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	thésauriserais /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	thésauriserait /te.zɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	thésauriserions /te.zɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	thésauriseriez /te.zɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	thésauriseraient /te.zɔ.ʁiz.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	thésaurise /te.zɔ.ʁiz/	thésaurises /te.zɔ.ʁiz/	thésaurise /te.zɔ.ʁiz/	thésaurisions /te.zɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	thésaurisiez /te.zɔ.ʁi.zje/	thésaurisent /te.zɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	thésaurisasse /te.zɔ.ʁi.zas/	thésaurisasses /te.zɔ.ʁi.zas/	thésaurisât /te.zɔ.ʁi.za/	thésaurisassions /te.zɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	thésaurisassiez /te.zɔ.ʁi.za.sje/	thésaurisassent /te.zɔ.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	thésaurise /te.zɔ.ʁiz/	—	thésaurisons /te.zɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	thésaurisez /te.zɔ.ʁi.ze/	—
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

• thésaurisation
• trésor

References

• “thésauriser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Brachet, A. (1873) “thésauriser”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.

Further reading

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