anser

See also: Anser

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈanˌseɐ̯ˀ]

Verb

anser

1. present tense of anse

French

Etymology

From anse (“handle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.se/

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Verb

anser

1. (transitive) to fix a handle (to)

Conjugation

Conjugation of anser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	anser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ansant /ɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ansé /ɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	anse /ɑ̃s/	anses /ɑ̃s/	anse /ɑ̃s/	ansons /ɑ̃.sɔ̃/	ansez /ɑ̃.se/	ansent /ɑ̃s/
	imperfect	ansais /ɑ̃.sɛ/	ansais /ɑ̃.sɛ/	ansait /ɑ̃.sɛ/	ansions /ɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	ansiez /ɑ̃.sje/	ansaient /ɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	ansai /ɑ̃.se/	ansas /ɑ̃.sa/	ansa /ɑ̃.sa/	ansâmes /ɑ̃.sam/	ansâtes /ɑ̃.sat/	ansèrent /ɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	anserai /ɑ̃.sʁe/	anseras /ɑ̃.sʁa/	ansera /ɑ̃.sʁa/	anserons /ɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	anserez /ɑ̃.sʁe/	anseront /ɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	anserais /ɑ̃.sʁɛ/	anserais /ɑ̃.sʁɛ/	anserait /ɑ̃.sʁɛ/	anserions /ɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	anseriez /ɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	anseraient /ɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(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	anse /ɑ̃s/	anses /ɑ̃s/	anse /ɑ̃s/	ansions /ɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	ansiez /ɑ̃.sje/	ansent /ɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	ansasse /ɑ̃.sas/	ansasses /ɑ̃.sas/	ansât /ɑ̃.sa/	ansassions /ɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	ansassiez /ɑ̃.sa.sje/	ansassent /ɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	anse /ɑ̃s/	—	ansons /ɑ̃.sɔ̃/	ansez /ɑ̃.se/	—
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

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

Latin

anser (a goose)

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns. The Latin term may have emerged from a pre-form *hāns ~ *hānsos, which perhaps had an accusative singular form *hānesem. This accusative form would then have evolved into *hānerem, which was then possibly remolded into *hānserem on the basis of the genitive singular form. It is perhaps possible that this accusative singular form then served to introduce -er- into the rest of the inflectional paradigm.

However, in any case, *hānser is not attested from Roman material, which includes inscriptional attestation of the cognomen Ānser. The absence of h may be because of an influence from the unrelated word anas (“duck”).

Cognates include Sanskrit हंस (haṃsa), Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Russian гусь (gusʹ), Old Irish géiss, Old English gōs (English goose), and Albanian gatë (“heron”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈãː.sɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan.ser]

Noun

ānser m (genitive ānseris); third declension

1. goose

   Synonym: (Late Latin) auca

   • 59 BCE – 17 CE, Titus Livius, Ab urba condita 5.47.4:

     ānserēs nōn fefellēre, quibus sacrīs Jūnōnis in summā inopiā cibī tamen abstinēbātur.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ānser	ānserēs
genitive	ānseris	ānserum
dative	ānserī	ānseribus
accusative	ānserem	ānserēs
ablative	ānsere	ānseribus
vocative	ānser	ānserēs

Derived terms

• ānserculus
• ānserīnus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Old Italian: ansero
    • ⇒ Italian: anserello (archaic, dialectal)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *ānsar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: anssar, ansar
  • Spanish: ánsar, ánsara
    • → Basque: antzara
• Borrowings:
  • → Esperanto: ansero
  • → Translingual: Anser

References

• “anser”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “anser”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “anser”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “anser”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “anser”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ānser”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 44

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

anser

1. present of anse

Swedish

Verb

anser

1. present indicative of anse

Anagrams

• Arnes, Enars, Ernas, arens, enars, erans, rasen, reans, renas, rensa, resan, snare