estamper

French

Alternative forms

• étamper

Etymology

From Middle French estamper, stamper, étamper, from Old French estamper (“to crush”), from Frankish *stampôn (“to crush”) or Old High German stampfōn (modern German stampfen), from Proto-West Germanic *stampōn, from Proto-Germanic *stampōną, from Proto-Indo-European *stembʰ- (“to trample down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.tɑ̃.pe/

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Verb

estamper

1. to emboss
2. to stamp (mark by pressing quickly and heavily)

Conjugation

Conjugation of estamper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	estamper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	estampant /ɛs.tɑ̃.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		estampé /ɛs.tɑ̃.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	estampe /ɛs.tɑ̃p/	estampes /ɛs.tɑ̃p/	estampe /ɛs.tɑ̃p/	estampons /ɛs.tɑ̃.pɔ̃/	estampez /ɛs.tɑ̃.pe/	estampent /ɛs.tɑ̃p/
	imperfect	estampais /ɛs.tɑ̃.pɛ/	estampais /ɛs.tɑ̃.pɛ/	estampait /ɛs.tɑ̃.pɛ/	estampions /ɛs.tɑ̃.pjɔ̃/	estampiez /ɛs.tɑ̃.pje/	estampaient /ɛs.tɑ̃.pɛ/
	past historic2	estampai /ɛs.tɑ̃.pe/	estampas /ɛs.tɑ̃.pa/	estampa /ɛs.tɑ̃.pa/	estampâmes /ɛs.tɑ̃.pam/	estampâtes /ɛs.tɑ̃.pat/	estampèrent /ɛs.tɑ̃.pɛʁ/
	future	estamperai /ɛs.tɑ̃.pʁe/	estamperas /ɛs.tɑ̃.pʁa/	estampera /ɛs.tɑ̃.pʁa/	estamperons /ɛs.tɑ̃.pʁɔ̃/	estamperez /ɛs.tɑ̃.pʁe/	estamperont /ɛs.tɑ̃.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	estamperais /ɛs.tɑ̃.pʁɛ/	estamperais /ɛs.tɑ̃.pʁɛ/	estamperait /ɛs.tɑ̃.pʁɛ/	estamperions /ɛs.tɑ̃.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	estamperiez /ɛs.tɑ̃.pə.ʁje/	estamperaient /ɛs.tɑ̃.pʁɛ/
(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	estampe /ɛs.tɑ̃p/	estampes /ɛs.tɑ̃p/	estampe /ɛs.tɑ̃p/	estampions /ɛs.tɑ̃.pjɔ̃/	estampiez /ɛs.tɑ̃.pje/	estampent /ɛs.tɑ̃p/
	imperfect2	estampasse /ɛs.tɑ̃.pas/	estampasses /ɛs.tɑ̃.pas/	estampât /ɛs.tɑ̃.pa/	estampassions /ɛs.tɑ̃.pa.sjɔ̃/	estampassiez /ɛs.tɑ̃.pa.sje/	estampassent /ɛs.tɑ̃.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	estampe /ɛs.tɑ̃p/	—	estampons /ɛs.tɑ̃.pɔ̃/	estampez /ɛs.tɑ̃.pe/	—
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).

Anagrams

• empêtras, prêtâmes, tempéras

Descendants

• Spanish: estampar

Further reading

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

References

• Brosman, Paul (1999): The Rhine Franconian Element in Old French, p51
• Skeat, Walter (2005): An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, p. 759